General Editor’s Preface	6
	References	7
	Acknowledgments	8
	Contents	10
	List of Figures	14
	List of Tables	16
	Chapter 1: Introduction	18
	1.1 A Brief Overview of the Development of Corpus-Based Translation Studies	18
	1.1.1 Theoretical Support for Corpus-Based Translation Studies	19
	1.1.2 Translated Text(s) as the Object of Study Independently?	21
	1.1.3 Defining Research Topics and Formulating Research Methodology	21
	1.1.4 The Proposal of a Monolingual Comparable Model	22
	1.1.5 Integration Between Parallel and Comparable Models	24
	1.1.6 Self-Examination of CTS	24
	1.1.7 Development of the New Paradigm	26
	1.1.8 Summary	27
	1.2 Style and Translation Studies	28
	1.3 The Status Quo of English Translations of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Novels	29
	1.4 A Question: Are There Any Differences Between “Translating into One’s Mother Tongue” and “Translating Out of It”?	31
	References	31
	Chapter 2: Style in Translation	34
	2.1 Defining Style	34
	2.2 Source Text-Oriented Stylistic Equivalence	38
	2.2.1 The Rhetorical View	38
	2.2.2 The Linguistic View	40
	2.2.3 The Narrative View	40
	2.3 Translation Universals: Stylistic Features of the Translated Text	41
	2.4 Translator’s Style	42
	2.4.1 Baker’s Methodology	42
	2.4.2 Follow-Up Investigations	43
	2.4.2.1 A Comparable Model	43
	2.4.2.2 A Parallel Model	44
	References	45
	Chapter 3: Building a Chinese-English Parallel Corpus of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Novels	48
	3.1 Introduction	48
	3.2 Design of the CEPCOCN	49
	3.2.1 Philosophy	49
	3.2.2 Principles	51
	3.3 Collection and Processing of Raw Materials	53
	3.3.1 Selection of Texts	53
	3.3.2 Text Processing	54
	3.3.2.1 Raw Material Input	54
	3.3.2.2 Recognition and Proofreading	54
	3.3.2.3 Segmentation of Chinese Texts and Alignment at Paragraph Level	54
	3.3.2.4 Sentence Segmentation and Header Adding	55
	3.3.2.5 Sentence Alignment	55
	3.3.2.6 Storage and Concordance	55
	3.3.2.7 Collection of Extratextual Materials	55
	3.4 Application of the Corpus in Translational Stylistic Studies	55
	References	57
	Chapter 4: Translator’s Style Revisited: A Case Study of Howard Goldblatt’s Style in Translating Chinese Novels	59
	4.1 Introduction	59
	4.2 Goldblatt’s Style in Translating Chinese Novels	60
	4.3 Translator’s Style or Translational Style	64
	4.3.1 Comparisons of STTR and M. Sentence Length	64
	4.3.2 Comparisons in Reporting Structures	66
	4.4 Summary	69
	4.4.1 Translator’s Style or Translational Style	69
	4.4.2 S-Type and T-Type Translator’s Styles	69
	4.4.3 A Proposed Multiple-Complex Model of Comparison	70
	References	72
	Chapter 5: Discourse Presentation Translation as an Indicator of Translator’s Style: A Case Study of Lao She’s Luotuo Xiangzi and Its Three English Translations	73
	5.1 Introduction	73
	5.2 Translator’s Style Based on Baker’s Methodology	74
	5.2.1 Corpora and Method	74
	5.2.2 Style Based on Statistics	76
	5.2.2.1 Standardized Type-Token Ratio (STTR)	76
	5.2.2.2 Reporting Structure	79
	5.3 Translator’s Style Reflected in Discourse Presentation Translation	80
	5.3.1 Different Models of Discourse Presentation	80
	5.3.1.1 Leech and Short’s Model	80
	5.3.1.2 Semino and Short’s Revised Model	82
	5.3.1.3 The Chinese Model	82
	5.3.2 Translation of Discourse Presentations	84
	5.4 S-Type Translator’s Style	89
	5.5 Summary	91
	References	92
	Chapter 6: Direct and Inverse Translations of Jia Pingwa’s Novels: A Corpus-Based Stylistic Comparison	94
	6.1 Introduction	94
	6.2 Theoretical Basis for Investigating the Style of a Group of Literary Translators	95
	6.3 Translations of Jia Pingwa’s Novels: Into vs. Out of the Mother Tongue	97
	6.3.1 Direct Translation vs. Inverse Translation	97
	6.3.2 The Corpus	97
	6.3.3 Statistical Style	97
	6.3.3.1 STTR and Mean Sentence Length	98
	6.3.3.2 Lexical Density	99
	6.3.4 Style in Mode and Strategy of Textual Presentation	100
	6.3.4.1 Readability Analysis	101
	6.3.4.2 Comparison of Wordlist	102
	6.4 Summary	107
	References	108
	Chapter 7: Readability as an Indicator of Self-Translating Style: A Case Study of Eileen Chang	110
	7.1 Introduction	110
	7.2 Eileen Chang’s Novels in English: Writings and Translations	111
	7.3 A Corpus-Based Study of Eileen Chang’s ­ Self-­Translating Style	112
	7.3.1 The Corpus	112
	7.3.2 Readability as an Indicator of Translating Style	113
	7.3.2.1 Lix (Lasbarhetsindex)	114
	7.3.2.2 Lexical Diversity and Mean Sentence Length by WordSmith	115
	7.3.2.3 Parameters Provided by Readability Analyzer	116
	7.3.2.4 Parameters Provided by Readability Studio	117
	7.4 Summary	123
	References	124
	Chapter 8: Conclusion	127
	8.1 A Summary	127
	8.2 New Problems	129
	8.3 Future Directions	130
	References	133
	Appendices	134
	Appendix 4.1: English Translations of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Novels by Howard Goldblatt	135
	Appendix 4.2: Size of Texts Translated by Goldblatt	139
	Appendix 4.3: Size of Texts Translated by Yang	139
	Appendix 4.4: Size of Texts by the Four English Native Writers	140
	Appendix 5.1: “You” as the Major Search Entry for the Ambiguous Forms of Discourse Presentation in Luotuo Xiangzi	140
	Appendix 5.2: “I” as the Major Search Entry for the Ambiguous Forms of Discourse Presentation in Luotuo Xiangzi	160
	Appendix 6.1: The 15 Novels by Jia Pingwa and Their English Translations	164
	Appendix 6.2: English Original Novels of Local Colorism by American Writers	165
	Bibliography	166