6.1.1 Data Results from the Corpus
I marked out all the traditional expressions in grey shading in each of the 15 Word documents and then extracted them by using the ParaConc software in the corpus,after which I acquired the relevant data to evaluate whether subtitlers feel comfortable in using such culturally loaded expressions in order to make their translations more evocative at a cultural level and more interesting in terms of expression.According to the collected data,on average,all of the 15 chosen films feature traditional expressions.This itself is a significant result since it shows that most subtitlers are willing to consider such expressions in their translation work.The following screenshot shows the technique applied in subtitling (all the parts marked in grey shading are traditional expressions in Chinese; normally,fourcharacter words are typical of Chinese idioms,this type of traditional expression is the most frequent one used in the subtitle translation of E-C films compared with other types of traditional expressions as archaism,sentence pattern of ancient poems).
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Then,as per the introduction of the application of ParaConc in the previous chapter of methodology,I gave the label “TE” (for traditional expressions) to these traditional expressions,and then put them into ParaConc,in order to show the frequency of the use of traditional expressions in each selected film.