Researching Translator’s Functional Style: A Corpus-Assisted Approach

Kan Wu is postdoctoral fellow at Center for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, University of Macau. He also serves as Associate Professor at school of foreign languages, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics Dongfang College. Dr. Wu has obtained his PhD in education from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interest mainly focused on translation studies on the basis of the theory of functional styles.

Defeng Li is Distinguished Professor of Translation Studies and Director of the Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) at the University of Macau. Prior to his current appointment, he served as Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies and reader in Translation Studies at SOAS, University of London; Director of the MA in Translation and Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dean and Chair Professor at Shandong University; and (visiting) Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is currently President of World Interpreter and Translator Training Association (WITTA). He has researched and published extensively in the field of cognitive translation studies, corpus-assisted translation studies, curriculum development in translator training, research methods in translation studies, professional translation (e.g., business, journalistic, and legal translation), as well as second language education.