《毛泽东选集》第一卷两个英译本数据统计对比分析

论文摘要

本文对《毛泽东选集》第一卷的中文文本以及其两个重要英译本(1954年由伦敦Wishart & Lawrence出版社出版的WL版以及1965年由外研社出版的FLP版)中的某些词汇特点和句法特点进行了对比研究,并探讨在这些文体特点上哪个译本更接近于原文本。本研究主要采用基于语料库方法的定量分析进行对比研究。本文中涉及的词汇特点包括:类符总数、型符总数、类型符比、句子总数、平均句长、词长和文本可读性。句法特点包括:并列句和复合句、被动句、定语从句和假设句。本文的结论为:与WL版相比,FLP版用词较少、词长较短并且句子较短。总的来说,FLP版在词法和句法特点上更接近原文本。

论文目录

• Abstract
• 摘要
• Chapter One Introduction
• 1.1 Need for the study
• 1.2 Purpose of the study
• 1.3 Structure of the study
• Chapter Two An Introduction to the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and its English Versions
• 2.1 About the author and his writings
• 2.2 About the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
• 2.3 Translation of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and its two major English versions
• 2.3.1 Translation of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
• 2.3.2 Two major English versions
• 2.4 About the translators of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
• 2.4.1 Translators of the WL version
• 2.4.2 Translators of FLP version
• 2.5 Previous researches on the translation of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
• Chapter Three Theoretical Framework
• 3.1 Linguistic stylistics
• 3.1.1 What is style?
• 3.1.2 Methods of investigating linguistic stylistics
• 3.2 Stylistic study of translation
• 3.3 Corpus-based Translation Studies
• 3.4 Areas of Corpus-based Translation Studies
• 3.5 Limitations of corpus-based methodology
• Chapter Four Research methodology
• 4.1 Research questions
• 4.1.1 Research questions
• 4.1.2 Hypotheses
• 4.2 Criteria for collecting data and data source
• 4.3 Feasibility analysis
• Chapter Five Data Analysis of Stylistic Features
• 5.1 Statistics of lexical features of the two English versions and the original text
• 5.1.1 Selection of parameters for investigation
• 5.1.2 Investigation of parameters in the translated texts and the original text
• 5.1.3 Hypotheses prior to statistic analysis
• 5.1.4 Related statistics
• 5.1.5 Findings and discussion
• 5.2 Statistics of syntactic features in the two English versions and the original text
• 5.2.1 Selection of parameters for investigation
• 5.2.2 Investigation of parameters in the translated texts and the original text
• 5.2.3 Hypotheses prior to statistic analysis
• 5.2.4 Related statistics
• 5.2.5 Findings and discussion
• Chapter Six Explanations of Major Findings
• 6.1 Major findings
• 6.2 Explanations from the perspective of stylistic equivalence
• Chapter Seven Conclusion
• 7.1 Significance of the thesis
• 7.2 Limitations of the thesis
• 7.3 Suggestions for future research
• References
• Notes
• Appendix: Abbreviations in the Thesis