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Download full textNgan, Yuen-Wan; Kong, Wai-ping – 1999
A study investigated the role of audience awareness in translation of lexical items, specifically as it may affect translation from English to Chinese. The audiences, or readership, in this case is defined as readers from three different regions in which Chinese is used predominantly: Hong Kong; mainland China; and Taiwan. The varieties of Chinese…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English
