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A Corpus-Based Study on Liu Yukun’s Translation Style as Reflected in Folding Beijing

Authors
Yuting Chen1, Wei Gong1, *
1School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Business University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
*Corresponding author. Email: 851100874@qq.com
Corresponding Author
Wei Gong
Available Online 27 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_27How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Corpus Technology; Quantitative Analysis; Sci-Fi Translation; Folding Beijing
Abstract

Folding Beijing, written by Hao Jingfang and later translated by the famed science fiction writer Liu Yukun (also known as Ken Liu), has been a hit overseas, promoting the spread of Chinese culture and winning the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2016. This paper will take Liu Yukun’s translation as an example, using quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze Liu Yukun’s translation style. The corpus technology, the software Antconc, is used to construct the self-built corpus of Folding Beijing translated by Liu Yukun. And then the data analysis is expounded from the aspects of standard type-token ration (STTR), lexical density and word frequency, average sentence length and passive voice sentences, and narrative tenses. Based on the big data and corpus technology, it is found that the translation of Folding Beijing is basically faithful to the original text, and at the same time has its own unique style, which is close to the habits of the target language.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (IC-ICAIE 2022)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Computer Sciences
Publication Date
27 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_27
ISSN
2589-4900
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-040-4_27How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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