Reappraising Self and Others

Download or read book Reappraising Self and Others written by Tao Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a valuable resource for those involved in translation studies and discourse analysis. Drawing on a corpus-based approach and a combined framework of Appraisal and Ideological Square, this book investigates the variations in stance towards China and other countries in the English translation of contemporary Chinese political discourse. It presents research findings based on comparisons and statistical analyses of the English translation patterns of appraisal epithets, the most prototypical appraisal resources for evaluation, in Chinese political discourse at both lexico-grammatical and discourse semantic levels.