A Corpus-Based Study on Explicitation in English-Chinese Political Translation

Based on corpus-related software and strategic framework of explicitation translation in applied texts, this paper uses Report on the Work of the Governmentas an example and explore the explicitation in political texts. According to the research results, political texts have shown explicitation in four sectors of the framework, especially the sector of first person plural pronouns, with quantity, language, culture, and others as influential factors.

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