Author(s)

Lin Luo ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 000977, China

Corresponding Author

Lin Luo

ABSTRACT

In accordance with the quantitative analysis of all the empirical samples, namely, annotated chengyu and sizige and their corresponding English vocabulary in the selected materials – Brave New World and its two Chinese translations based on self-built parallel corpus in Sketch Engine, it can be found that domestication is the preferred strategy adopted by the two translators – Sun Fali and Chen Chao – in their texts, which represents their status – visibility – in the translation as well. Afterwards, the motivations of the translators' visibility are qualitatively analyzed from the viewpoints of translation aesthetics, Chang's theoretical statement on translator's visibility and invisibility in PRC, as well as the translators' personal linguistic habitus. The author hopes to promote a new methodology and perspective, namely, the corpus-based approach and typical four-character Chinese idioms (chengyu and sizige) into the field of translation studies, especially translator's visibility and invisibility.

KEYWORDS

Translator's Visibility and Invisibility; Corpus-based Studies of Literary Translation; Translation Approaches and Strategies; Translation Aesthetics

CITE THIS PAPER

Lin Luo, Translators' Visibility and Invisibility in the Chinese Literary Translation of Brave New World: A Corpus-based Study. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 48-57. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061208.

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