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Vol. 10:2 (2012) ► pp.161–186

The Use and Misuse of High Frequency Nouns in English Translations of Chinese Patent Abstracts

| National Taiwan University |
Keywords: Patent abstract, patent translation, pleonasm, redundant, specialized parallel corpus
Published online: 1 October 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.10.2.08tsa
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