Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies 9781443817554

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction • Richard Xiao
PART I: CORPUS-BASED TRANSLATION STUDIES
2. Translating Anaphoric this into Portuguese: A Corpus-based Study • Marco Rocha
3. Patterns in Metaphor Translation: Translating FEAR Metaphors between English and Chinese • Yan Ding, Dirk Noël, Hans-Georg Wolf
4. Specialized Comparable Corpora in Translation Evaluation: A Case Study of English Translations of Chinese Law Firm Adverts • Yun Xia, Defeng Li
5. The Specificity of Translator’s Notes: Lexicometrical Analysis of the Notes in Fu Lei’s Translation of Jean-Christophe by Roman Rolland • Jun Miao, André Salem
6. Coherence in Simultaneous Interpreting: An Idealized Cognitive Model Perspective • Ernest Wei Gao
7. Syntactic Differences between Translated and Non-translated Dutch: A Corpus-based In-depth Analysis of PP Placement • Gert De Sutter, Marc Van de Velde
8. A Parallel Corpus-based Study of Translational Chinese • Kefei Wang, Hongwu Qin
9. In Pursuit of the “Third Code”: Using the ZJU Corpus of Translational Chinese in Translation Studies • Richard Xiao, Lianzhen He, Ming Yue
10. Comparing Non-native and Translated Language: Monolingual Comparable Corpora with a Twist • Federico Gaspari, Silvia Bernardini
11. Sense-Making in Corpus-assisted Translation Research: A Review of Corpus-assisted Translation Research in China • Defeng Li, Chunling Zha
PART II: PARALLEL CORPUS DEVELOPMENT AND BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY
12. Poverty Driven Bilingual Alignment • Kim Gerdes
13. Chinese-Uyghur Parallel Corpus Construction and its Application • Samat Mamitimin, Umar Dawut
14. Designing and Developing a Parallel Corpus Based on Media Subtitles • Chong Zhu
15. Finding the Parallel: Automatic Dictionary Construction and Identification of Parallel Text Pairs • Sumithra Velupillai, Martin Hassel, Hercules Dalianis
16. Web Corpora for Bilingual Lexicography: A Pilot Study of English/French Collocation Extraction and Translation • Adriano Ferraresi, Silvia Bernardini, Giovanni Picci, Marco Baroni
PART III: CORPUS-BASED CONTRASTIVE STUDIES
17. Contrastive Corpus Analysis of Cross-linguistic Asymmetries in Concessive Conditionals • Bart Defrancq
18. Contrastive Connectors in English and Chinese: A Case Study of However in Two Translation Corpora • Jianxin Wang
19. A Corpus-based Comparison of Satellites in Chinese and English • Hui Yin
20. Repetition Patterns of Rhetoric Features in English and Chinese Advertisements: A Corpus-based Contrastive Study • Guiling Niu, Huaqing Hong
21. A Contrastive Study of Comparative Constructions in English, Japanese and Tok Pisin: Using Corpora in Cross-linguistic Contrast • Masahiko Nose
22. A Corpus-based Study of Restrictive Relative Clauses • Hui-Chuan Lu, Yun-Hui Chen
23. Frequency and Lexico-grammatical Patterns of Sense-related Verbs in English and Portuguese Abstracts • Carmen Dayrell
24. A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Reporting in English MA Theses • Yuechun Jiang, Zhiqing Hu
Notes on Contributors
Index

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