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A Corpus Analysis of Translation of Environmental News on BBC China

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Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies

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BBC China represents a complex news sourcing and reporting system. Sponsored by the BBC with a special focus on Chinese-speaking communities worldwide, it includes news materials collected from a wide variety of sources in original Chinese or in Chinese translations which are mainly rendered from English. An important source of news published on BBC China are selected translations of original English news published on the website of BBC UK.

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  1. Dipartimento LELIA, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

    Sara Laviosa

  2. Translation Studies, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Adriana Pagano

  3. Translation Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Hannu Kemppanen

  4. The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Meng Ji

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Laviosa, S., Pagano, A., Kemppanen, H., Ji, M. (2017). A Corpus Analysis of Translation of Environmental News on BBC China. In: Textual and Contextual Analysis in Empirical Translation Studies. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1969-2_5

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