Author(s)

Zhao Xuwei ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of English Language and Culture, Xi'an Fanyi University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Corresponding Author

Zhao Xuwei

ABSTRACT

On the basis of self-built corpora and with the combination of quantitative methods and qualitative analysis, this paper makes a comparative study of the original English works written by Lin Yutang and their Chinese versions translated by Zhang Zhenyu, a well-known translator of the English works of Lin Yutang. Based on the statistics mainly at the linguistic level, including content words ratio, STTR, h-point, entropy and activity, conclusions of this study include: first, the original writer as well as the translator maintains a consistent style during their writing or translating; second, in spite of nuances in certain parameters, the translator's style is highly consistent with that of the original writer; third, it can also be found that quantitative approach, especially quantitative stylistics is applicable and is of higher objectivity for the research of translation study.

KEYWORDS

Translator's style; Corpus; Quantitative stylistics; Lin Yutang; Zhang Zhenyu

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhao Xuwei, A Corpus-based Comparative Study on the Consistency of Writer's Style and Translator's Style. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 145-149. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070123.

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