Title :
A Study of Unique Words in Hawks´ Translation of Hong Lou Meng in Comparison with Yang´s Translation
Author :
Liang, Yunfang ; Wang, Lixin ; Yang, Dan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Foreign Languages, Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
Abstract :
This paper applies corpus linguistics techniques to study unique words in Hawks´ translation of Hong Lou Meng in comparison with Yang Xianyi´s translation of it. Concordance and Concapp are used to elicit data from Hong Lou Meng. By analyzing three representative unique words “dark-red”, “penny”, “mile”, which belongs to color terms, unit of money, unit of distance respectively, this paper attempts to examine translator´s style based on the study of unique words.
Keywords :
language translation; linguistics; natural language processing; Hawks translation; Hong Lou Meng; Yang Xianyis translation; concapp; concordance; corpus linguistics techniques; Color; Context; Education; Image color analysis; Measurement units; Medical services; Presses; corpus linguistics; translator style; unique words;
Conference_Titel :
Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Harbin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9063-9
DOI :
10.1109/IALP.2010.63
