Corpus-based Approach to Translator’s Behavior of Chinese Legal Classics Translation: A Case Study of The Great Ming Code

Han XIAO, Lei LI

Abstract


The Great Ming Code is regarded as a legal code with the significance of reforming the old and reinventing the new which systematically summarizes the legal codes of China before the Ming Dynasty and initiates the development of modern Chinese legislation. The current study, drawing on translator’s behavior criticism and CUC ParaConc, combs the English translation The Great Ming Code by Jiang Yonglin. It is found that influenced by translation goal, knowledge structure and readers’ reception, the translator would deploy domestication and foreignization to reach a balance between the loyalty-seeking and unitality-seeking, consequently, the translation enjoys a tremendous reception.

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Legal classics; The Great Ming Code; Translator behavior criticism

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/13572

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