Hybridity in translated Chinese: a corpus analytical framework

摘要

Since the late 1980s, corpus tools have been used in translation studies to analyze the linguistic patterns of source and target texts in terms of keywords, collocation, colligation, semantic prosody and semantic preference. Mona Baker s 1993 essay 'Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies: Implications and Applications' marks the turning point of corpus-informed translation studies (CTS), i.e. converting from a research direction to a fledging discipline. In the years that have followed, a series of new hypotheses have been put forward, e.g. with respect to translation universals or the general tendency of translationese. As a subfield of translation studies, CTS means more than describing translation quantitatively; it formulates new hypotheses (e.g. translation universals), proposes new research methods (e.g. translator style) and develops new tools (e.g. computer-assisted translator training).