Assessing English-Translated Profiles of Chinese Companies: "A Corpus-Based Comparative Study from the Perspectives of Lexical Features and Intersubjectivity"

Autor/in	Pan, Jiejing
Titel	Assessing English-Translated Profiles of Chinese Companies: "A Corpus-Based Comparative Study from the Perspectives of Lexical Features and Intersubjectivity"
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 12 (2019) 1, S.119-133 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Translation; Computational Linguistics; Classification; Comparative Analysis; Corporations; Profiles; Grammar; Chinese; Language Variation; Language Usage; Intercultural Communication; Discourse Analysis; Second Languages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Unternehmen; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Grammatik; China; Chinesen; Sprachenvielfalt; Sprachgebrauch; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Diskursanalyse; Second language; Zweitsprache
Abstract	Based on the Communicative Action Theory, intersubjectivity theory and the interpersonal classification of metadiscourse, this study makes a comparison between the source texts and the English-translated texts of Chinese company profiles with a self-built parallel corpus, along the dimensions of lexical variation, lexical density, grammatical explicitation and metadiscourse use. The purpose of this study is to evaluate English-translated company profiles by examining the lexical features and intersubjectivity. The research findings are as follows. First, English company profiles show a lower degree of lexical variation and density and a higher degree of grammatical explicitation, and use more metadiscourse resources. Second, metadiscourse resources construct the intersubjectivity of company profiles by fulfilling the Universal Validity Claims required by communicative actions. Third, English-translated company profiles are much easier to understand, with a clearer logic and a higher degree of intersubjectivity. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01