Notes for transcription -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Corpus-based Translation Studies: An evolving paradigm -- Exploring the features of translational language -- Corpora and corpus tools in use -- The macro-statistic features of translational Chinese -- The lexical features of translational Chinese -- The grammatical features of translational Chinese -- The features of translational Chinese and Translation Universals -- Conclusive remarks.

This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the world’s first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese corpus, provides a reliable empirical basis for a comprehensive account of the macro-statistic, lexical, and grammatical features of translational Chinese in English-to-Chinese translation – a significant contribution to Descriptive Translation Studies. The research findings based on these two distinctly different languages have important implications for universal translation research on the European tradition.