A Corpus-based Comparison of Terms of Dress and Personal Adornment in Hong Lou Meng and Its English Versions

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10.2991/icemaess-15.2016.245How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hong Lou Meng; English Version; Corpus-based; Terms of Dress and Personal Adornment

Abstract

Based on previous studies of dress and personal adornment on HLM, the study aims to define and classify terms of dress and personal adornment (to be abbreviated as TDPA hereinafter) in HLM. With the aid of the HLM Chinese-English parallel corpus, the study sets out to search TDPA in HLM and their renditions in three English translations, taking advantage of a wordlist of terms of dress and a wordlist of terms of personal adornment. The implications of this descriptive and comparative study may lie in summarizing the rules of translating TDPA, shedding light on the translation of TDPA in other Chinese classical works, and offering help in future translation teaching and translation practice.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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