Seeing various adventures through a mirror: Detecting translator's stylistic visibility in Chinese translations of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland.
The visibility of translator's style is a much-discussed topic in translation studies with the application of corpus tools. So far, however, no agreement has been reached. The present study aims to explore this issue by a comparison of three Chinese translations of the English literary work, Alice's...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 50 - 66 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2023
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