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This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose through the analysis of three English versions of the Chinese novel __Hong Lou Meng__ (__Dream of the Red Chamber__). Previous studies have explored the relevance of the cultural and linguistic positioning of different translators, but thus far no corpus-based study of nominalization has been undertaken in relation to translator style. This book uses quantitative and qualitative analyses of the nominalized transform of finite verbal forms in three Chinese-to-English translations to distinguish between translator styles, concluding that nominalization is a key identifier in translations. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose and, more generally, encourages further study into nominalization in translation.

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Author

Yu Hou

Publisher

Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9783034318150

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Education