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dc.contributorDepartment of Chinese and Bilingual Studiesen_US
dc.creatorWu, Ken_US
dc.creatorLi, Den_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-22T06:58:43Z-
dc.date.available2023-09-22T06:58:43Z-
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-032-28738-6 (hbk)en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-032-28740-9 (pbk)en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-003-29832-8 (ebk)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10397/101927-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rights© 2023 selection and editorial matter, Riccardo Moratto and Defeng Li; individual chapters, the contributorsen_US
dc.rightsThe right of Riccardo Moratto and Defeng Li to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.en_US
dc.rightsAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.en_US
dc.rightsThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies on 26 December 2022, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781003298328.en_US
dc.titleAre translated Chinese Wuxia fiction and western heroic literature similar? a stylometric analysis based on stylistic panoramasen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US
dc.identifier.spage191en_US
dc.identifier.epage212en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003298328-12en_US
dcterms.abstractThis study investigates the extent to which English translations of Chinese Wuxia fiction and Western heroic literature in modern English are stylistically similar through stylometric analyses. It adds to literary translation research by highlighting possible stylistic connections between heroic literature in the East and that in the West, clues that may help understand the current reception of Wuxia translations. It also contributes to stylometric studies by introducing the stylistic panorama, a novel concept proposed to describe the stylistic picture of a (translated) text in a relatively holistic and functional way. Examining six English translations of Wuxia novels and 12 chivalric stories and heroic fantasies in modern English, the study finds that the Wuxia translations differ from the two Western subgenres in stylistic panoramas built by formal features (dispersion of word lengths, average sentence length, etc.), as well as the most frequent words and the most frequent word sequences. Such differences have foregrounded the unique stylistic features (richer Wuxia-specific vocabularies, shorter paragraph lengths, etc.) of these translations, which has contributed in part to their favorable reception among English-speaking readers. It is hoped that this study will encourage new applications for the concept of stylistic panoramas in future stylometric studies.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsopen accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIn R Moratto & D Li (Eds.), Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies, p. 191-212. London: Routledge, 2022,en_US
dcterms.issued2022-
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85143730376-
dc.relation.ispartofbookAdvances in corpus applications in literary and translation studiesen_US
dc.publisher.placeLondonen_US
dc.description.validate202309 bcchen_US
dc.description.oaAccepted Manuscripten_US
dc.identifier.FolderNumbera2455-
dc.identifier.SubFormID47700-
dc.description.fundingSourceRGCen_US
dc.description.pubStatusPublisheden_US
dc.description.oaCategoryGreen (AAM)en_US
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