Richard Xiao Knihy

This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the world’s first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese corpus, provides a reliable empirical basis for a comprehensive account of the macro-statistic, lexical, and grammatical features of translational Chinese in English-to-Chinese translation – a significant contribution to Descriptive Translation Studies. The research findings based on these two distinctly different languages have important implications for universal translation research on the European tradition.

This Mandarin Chinese dictionary features 5,000 commonly used words and 2,000 characters, based on a fifty-million-word corpus from various text types. It offers a detailed frequency-based list and an alphabetical index, making it ideal for learners.

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader’s understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. Corpus-Based Language Studies : The accompanying website to this book can be found at

Focusing on the grammatical categories of English and Chinese, this volume presents a comprehensive analysis using extensive corpora of authentic spoken and written data. It highlights the significant differences and similarities between these two major world languages, offering insights into their unique structures and usage. This book-length study provides a valuable resource for linguists and language learners interested in contrastive linguistics and cross-cultural communication.