QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE LINGUISTIC FEATRUES OF THE CHINESE TRANSLATIONS OF THE NOVELLE “MY CHILDHOOD”

Abstract

Taking digital humanities as an entry point, this study adopts the corpus research paradigm to conduct a comparative study on the linguistic features of Chinese translations of “Childhood”, so as to provide a reference for the exploration of new paths for the study of Chinese translations of literary works. A corpus is established by collecting the original text and the Chinese translation corpus, analyzing the macro and micro features of the Russian-Chinese corpus, and then exploring the similarities and differences of the linguistic features of the Chinese translation. The data results show that the Chinese translations present a high degree of similarity in terms of the measurement characteristics of the collocational paradigms of conjunctions and verbs, indicating that the gap in their linguistic dependency structure is relatively small; they present certain differences in terms of lexical richness, readability and thematicity tests, indicating that there is a large gap in linguistic complexity, readability and thematic expression between the Chinese translations. Compared with the original, the Chinese translation shows a general tendency of stealthy translation of conjunctions. In terms of the measurement characteristics of verbs, the verb-preposition phrase collocation of the Chinese translation shows a tendency of stealthy translation, and the number of verb copy structures is significantly larger than that of the original, and the Chinese translation pays more attention to conveying the meaning of the verb itself, whereas the original focuses on the collocation of the verb with other words to convey the meaning.