Word clusters and reformulation markers in Chinese and English : Implications for translation universal hypotheses
Word clusters and reformulation markers in Chinese and English : Implications for translation universal hypotheses
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中英文词簇和重构标记：对翻译普遍假设的启示
DOI：
10.1075/lic.11.2.01xia
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发表时间：
2011
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0.5
通讯作者：
R. Xiao
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作者：
R. Xiao
本文以语料库为基础，对英汉两种语言中的词群和重组标记进行对比研究，并讨论了研究结果对翻译普遍假设的启示。本研究基于三个均衡的可比语料库，分别代表英国英语、中国本土英语和中国翻译，以及一个英汉平行语料库，为比较本土英语和翻译英语以及研究翻译中的显化提供了基础。我们的研究结果表明，词集群是更常见的翻译中文，这表明在翻译中使用固定和半固定的重复模式，试图提高流利性的趋势。词簇的使用频率，尤其是那些在翻译汉语中使用频率高、覆盖率高的词簇，也可能是英语源语影响的结果，因为词簇在母语英语中比在母语汉语中更普遍。英汉两种语言倾向于使用不同风格的改写标记，而英汉两种语言中改写标记的使用频率普遍高于英汉两种语言，这表明改写标记是翻译中的一种显化策略。
This article presents a corpus-based contrastive study of word clusters and reformulation markers in Chinese and English, and discusses the implications of the findings for translation universal hypotheses. The study is based on three balanced comparable corpora which represent British English, native Chinese and translational Chinese in addition to an English-Chinese parallel corpus which provides a basis for comparing native and translated English and investigating explicitation in translation. Our results show that word clusters are substantially more common in translated Chinese, suggesting a tendency in translations to use fixed and semi-fixed recurring patterns in an attempt to achieve improved fluency. The more frequent use of word clusters, especially those of high frequency and high coverage in translational Chinese, is also likely to be a result of the influence of the English source language because word clusters are significantly more prevalent in native English in relation to native Chinese. Chinese and English tend to use reformulation markers of different styles while on the other hand, reformulation markers are generally more common in both translated English and translated Chinese than in their native counterparts, suggesting that reformulation markers function as a strategy for explicitation in translations, which tend to use oral, stylistically simpler forms than non-translated texts.