Phraseology in Corpus-Based Translation Studies

The Author: Meng Ji has a Ph.D. from Imperial College London (2009) within the area of corpus-based translation studies focused on the study of phraseology in literary translations into Chinese. She is presently developing an interdisciplinary approach to corpus-based translation studies by integrating methodologies from disciplines including textual statistics, quantitative sociolinguistics and computational stylometry.

• Contents: Construction of a Parallel Corpus of Don Quijote – Corpus Data Retrieval and Annotation – Phraseological Patterns in Yang’s Translation – Phraseological Patterns in Liu’s Translation – Use of Figurative/Archaic Idioms in the Two Translations – Quantitative Exploration of Style Variation in Liu’s Translation.