Corpus-Based Studies on Translator’s Style: Retrospect and Prospect

Yi Li

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Corpus-Based Studies on Translator’s Style: Retrospect and Prospect

Yi Li^*

Published in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 10, Issue 3)

Received: 7 September 2024 Accepted: 25 September 2024 Published: 10 October 2024

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Abstract

The past 20 years have seen significant advances in the corpus-based studies on translator’s style, an important subfield of corpus-based translation studies. However, there is still a lack of a coherent and clear understanding of the research models, objects of study, and methodologies. This paper classifies different research models, reviews the representative achievements of the studies, analyzes the limitations of current research, and provides suggestions for future studies. This paper argues that the existing research methods need to be expanded, the objects should be enriched, and the research model requires further investigation. Studies in the future should expand the current research methodology from primary quantitative studies to semantic, pragmatic and socio-cultural parameters. Greater focus should be placed on analyzing the translator’s style as demonstrated by linguistic features, such as language collocation and semantic prosody, as well as the subtext of the translated work, and non-linguistic features, such as the translator’s choice of material for translation. Furthermore, attention must be paid to the examination of both the preferred linguistic patterns that the translator uses to reproduce the source text and the recurrence of these patterns across the translator’s other translations of works by different authors.

Published in	International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijalt.20241003.12
Page(s)	44-49
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Corpus-based Studies, Translator’s Style, Limitations, Prospect

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