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© 2024 Gao, Zhou. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

Based on the self-built English translation corpus of Mencius, this study conducts a lexical, syntactical and textual comparative analysis of Mencius English translations by James Legge (1861), Leonard A.Lyall (1932) and D.C.Lau (1970) through adopting a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and employing Tokenizer, Tree Tagger, WordSmith8.0, AntConc and Readability Analyzer software. By analyzing representative translation examples and the para-text of each translation, this study explores the relationship among the historical background, translator’s cultural identity and translation motivation. The results reveal that the translator’s style is closely related to the translation strategy determined by the translation purpose rooted in translator’s cultural identity in different historical and social backgrounds.The study findings will bring a new perspective for the translator’s cultural identity research, contribute to the translator’s style study and deepen the understanding of the English translation and overseas dissemination of Mencius with the help of corpus technology.

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Title
Revealing the translator’s style: A corpus-based study of english translations of Mencius
Author
Gao, Yaoyao  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhou, Guijun  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
First page
e0305894
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2024
Publication date
Jul 2024
Publisher
Public Library of Science
e-ISSN
19326203
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305894
ProQuest document ID
3081646267
Copyright
© 2024 Gao, Zhou. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.