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Chapter One Introduction 

1.1 Background of the thesis 
Conversion can be referred to a method of word-formation or a frequently used method  in  translation.  In  translation  and  interpretation,  it  is  usually  referred  to  the changes of lexical category or parts of the sentence from SL to TL, so as to make TL more precisely (Wang Lei, 2006). For the different grammatical structures of SL and TL,  class  shifts  at  the  lexical  level  are  inevitable.  And  in  C-E  and  E-C  translation, conversion from Chinese verbs to English nouns is applied a lot, since Chinese is an “active” language, while English is a “static” language (Bao Caixia,).   In  the  past,  a  large  number  of  studies  on  conversion  have  been  conducted. However,  most  of  those  studies  are  relying  on  introspection  and  instinct.  As  corpus translation studies have being developed rapidly since Professor Mona Baker and her team  published  Corpus  Linguistics  and  Translation  Studies:  Implications  and Applications (Mona baker, 1993) in 1993. Many Chinese scholars also mentioned the strategies  of  conversion  in  their  textbooks.  For  instance,  Zhang  Peiji  suggests  “  (In E-C  translation)  many  English  nouns  derived  from  verbs  and  those  nouns  implying actions can be translated into Chinese verbs.”(Zhang Peiji, 1980) For its short history, corpus studies in translation and interpretation remains to be improved. According to incomplete statistics, only ten corpora are widely used in the whole world (Zhang Wei, 2013).  In  China,  the  major  corpora  include  CECIC,  CEIPPC,  PACCEL  and  CLEC. Data  of  the  former  two  corpora  are  collecting  from  meetings  and  interpreted  by professional interpreters. And the last one is composed of writings of English learners in  different  levels.  Therefore,  to  explore  the  features  of  Chinese  English  majors’ interpretation, the author chooses to collect data from sub-corpus of PACCEL. Thus,  through  investigating  V-N  conversion  in  C-E  interpretation,  the  author attempts  to  find  out  the  features  and  errors  of  the  English  majors  in  using  such conversion, the practical strategy of V-N conversion and tries to throw some light on teaching methods. 
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1.2 Purpose of the Thesis 
Through  investigating  V-N  conversion  in  Chinese  English  majors’  C-E interpretation in PACCEL-S, the author tries to achieve the following goals: First,  through  investigating  the  selected  data  of  PACCEL-S  ,  the  thesis  tries  to find  out  the  features  and  errors  of  V-N &nbs本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。