Translation Of Chinese Tourist Publications A Corpus-focused Study

This thesis makes a contrastive study between the translated versions of Chinese tourist publications and the English source texts, attempting to explore the differences between them and then proposing effective strategies to advance the translation of Chinese tourism culture. In order to make the research more scientific, the author employs corpus linguistics as the main theoretical framework.A corpus provides a large empirical database of discourse so that analyses are based on naturally occurring structures and patterns of language use rather than intuitions or perceptions. Rather than a linguistic discipline, corpus linguistics is a brand-new methodology for linguistic research. With the use of computers, researchers are allowed to work with a large variety of texts and thus to seek generalizations about language and language use which can go beyond particular texts or the intuitions of particular linguists. The paper, divided into six parts, deals with the following issues:Chapter One presents the research background, the research problems, the research objectives based on the research problems and the methodology employed in the dissertation.In Chapter Two, some basic knowledge about tourist publications is discussed, including their definition, classification, basic functions and language features. Chapter Three takes a historical look at the previous research concerning tourist publications translation.In Chapter Four, corpus linguistics, employed as the theoretical foundation of the present research, is analyzed in detail. The detailed analysis includes definitions, analysis tools and statistical measures, which serve as the key methods of the research. Chapter Five is contributed to the corpus-based analysis of tourist publications on...