A Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Film and TV News: China Daily and Huffington Post as an Example
Abstract
Translating the news about Chinese film and television well can promote the dissemination of Chinese culture. Based on a comparable corpus, this paper explores the differences between the English translation of Chinese film and TV news from China Daily and the English news from Huffington Post at the lexical and syntactic levels. It empirically describes the linguistic features of the news from China Daily. The findings show that, China Daily's film and television news uses more difficult vocabulary and syntax. As a result, it is more difficult to read. In order to introduce China's excellent film and television works to foreigners more effectively, the author gives some suggestions based on the above findings.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18686/mcs.v4i4.1581
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