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Sketching the English translations of Kumārajīva’s The Diamond Sutra: A comparison of individual translators and translation teams | |
Chen, Xi1; Wang, Vincent X.1; Huang, Chu-Ren2 | |
2020-10-26 | |
Conference Name | 34th Pacific Asia conference on language, information and computation |
Source Publication | Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia conference on language, information and computation |
Pages | 30-41 |
Conference Date | October 24-26, 2020. |
Conference Place | VNU University of Science |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Abstract | This is a corpus-based study of four English translations of Kumarajiva’s The Diamond Sutra (401/2002). We sketched the four translated English sutras made by both individual translators and translation teams in terms of the profile of their word and sentence use and readability, using a range of corpus tools. Our results reveal that there are major differences between the individual translators and the translation teams in terms of word repertoire, sentence length and readability. The translation teams produced the English Buddhist texts as easy to read and strict with key concept terms to facilitate their missionary work. The individual translators’ renditions tend to differ remarkably based on the translators’ identities. Our study would shed light on the future research on language studies of English Buddhist texts and the dissemination of Buddhism from East to West through translation. |
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Indexed By | 其他 |
The Source to Article | Scopus, PB_Publication |
Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
Affiliation | 1.Department of English, University of Macau 2.Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Chen, Xi,Wang, Vincent X.,Huang, Chu-Ren. Sketching the English translations of Kumārajīva’s The Diamond Sutra: A comparison of individual translators and translation teams[C]:Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, 30-41. |
APA | Chen, Xi., Wang, Vincent X.., & Huang, Chu-Ren (2020). Sketching the English translations of Kumārajīva’s The Diamond Sutra: A comparison of individual translators and translation teams. Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia conference on language, information and computation, 30-41. |
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