Reshaping China's image: a corpus-based analysis of the English translation of Chinese political discourse.

Drawing on a combined framework of Appraisal System and Ideological Square Model, this paper conducts a corpus-based investigation of the ways in which the image of China is (re)shaped in the English translation of Chinese political discourse in terms of appraisal epithets. The results show that (1)...

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Publicado en:Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 354 - 371
Autores principales: Li, Tao, Pan, Feng
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2021
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          Centre for Corpus Research, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
          Department of Translation and Interpreting, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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        Image analysis
        Chinese people
        Translations
        Translating & interpreting
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        Discourse analysis
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        Appraisal
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