Author(s)

Miaomiao Feng ¹, Shengjie Xu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Foreign Languages, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

Corresponding Author

Shengjie Xu

ABSTRACT

A Corp-based Study of Yu Hua's Translation styles takes Brothers, To Live and their English versions as the object, and analyzes translation styles from five dimensions of language, rhetoric, narrative, pragmatics and culture-specific items by constructing analogies and parallel corpora. It is found that the language features of the English translation are simplified, but the literal translation retains the rhetorical style of repetition and onomatopoeia. Narrative translation is based on literal translation, supplemented by the balance of fidelity and readability. Culture-specific items adopt transliteration and interpretation, taking into account cultural transmission. The research innovation lies in the multi-dimensional framework and interdisciplinary corpus approach to reveal the mixed characteristics of translation. The limitation is that the sample is concentrated in two works and English translation, and it can be expanded to multi-language translation and reader-acceptance research in the future. This book provides an important reference for translation studies and literary translation.

KEYWORDS

Corpus translation Studies, Yu Hua's novels, Translation style studies

CITE THIS PAPER

Miaomiao Feng, Shengjie Xu, A review of a Corpus-based Study on Yu Hua's Novel Translation Style. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2025) Vol. 8: 6-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2025.080202.

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