Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Diagrams ix -- List of Abbreviations xi -- Acknowledgements xiii -- Introduction xv -- Chapter 1 -- Construction of a Parallel Corpus of Don Quijote (Part I) 1 -- 1.1. Corpus construction in Translation Studies 2 -- 1.2. Selection of corpus texts 7 -- 1.3. Segmentation of Chinese texts 12 -- 1.4. Parallel text alignment 32 -- 1.5. Conclusion 43 -- Chapter 2 -- Corpus Data Retrieval and Classification 45 -- 2.1. Problem-oriented annotation 45 -- 2.2. Automatic extraction of four-character expressions 49 -- 2.3. Classification of Chinese four-character expressions 55 -- 2.4. Redefining Chinese idioms 58 -- 2.5. Classification of figurative idioms and archaic idioms 67 -- 2.6. Conclusion 75 -- Chapter 3 -- General Phraseological Patterns in Yang's Translation 79 -- 3.1. Quantifying style in corpus-based Translation Studies 79 -- 3.2. Sampling 82 -- 3.3. Time factor in the use of idioms in contemporary Chinese 85 -- 3.4. Yang's phraseological preference for morpho-syntacticallypatterned phrases 92 -- 3.5. Conclusion 106 -- Chapter 4 -- General Phraseological Patterns in Liu's Translation 111 -- 4.1. Liu's phraseological preference for figurative idioms 111 -- 4.2. Cognate metaphors 113 -- 4.3. Non-cognate metaphors 116 -- 4.4. Other figurative speeches in the source text 127 -- 4.5. Liu's phraseological preference for archaic idioms 135 -- 4.6. Conclusion 140 -- Chapter 5 -- Use of Figurative/Archaic Idioms in the Two Translations 143 -- 5.1. Use of figurative idioms in the two Chinese translations 143 -- 5.2. Use of archaic idioms in the two translations 154 -- 5.3. Conclusion 171 -- Chapter 6 -- Quantitative Exploration of Stylistic Variation in Liu's Translation 173 -- 6.1. A context-motivated theory for style shifting in literary translation 173 -- 6.2. Statistical method applied 177.

6.3. Variable reduction and pattern recognition 182 -- 6.4. Conclusion 198 -- Chapter 7 -- Conclusion 201 -- 7.1. Summary 201 -- 7.2. Balancing of manual and automatic textual analysis 203 -- 7.3. Systematicity and replicability of the processing oftextual information 206 -- 7.4. Construction of theoretical models to elicit the nature ofliterary translation 211 -- Appendix I -- A Complete Situational Framework for Register Studies 215 -- References 219 -- Index 229.