4.3.2　Collecting the Data

As the previous explanation of the first hypothesis in this research implied,I will test whether the length of Chinese translated subtitles is generally greater than the length of the corresponding English original text.In keeping with this hypothesis,the data,in terms of the number of words in each pair of subtitles,both in English and Chinese,as well as their length differences are needed.The following procedure explains how the data in the corpus help to realize this specific study purpose.(https://www.daowen.com)

As outlined in the previous introduction,once the bilingual subtitles from the 15 selected animation films are collected from the Sheshou website,they are opened up in UltraEdit.In this software interface,I can obtain the numbers of words of each singled subtitle.Then,in the next step,all the bilingual subtitles are copied and put into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.By comparing the number of English words in each sample of original text with the number of Chinese words in each target subtitle on the spreadsheet,the testing of the first hypothesis about the length difference between each pair of bilingual subtitles can be achieved.