A Corpus-based Comparative Study on the Consistency of Writer's Style and Translator's Style

On the basis of self-built corpora and with the combination of quantitative methods and qualitative analysis, this paper makes a comparative study of the original English works written by Lin Yutang and their Chinese versions translated by Zhang Zhenyu, a well-known translator of the English works of Lin Yutang. Based on the statistics mainly at the linguistic level, including content words ratio, STTR, h-point, entropy and activity, conclusions of this study include: first, the original writer as well as the translator maintains a consistent style during their writing or translating; second, in spite of nuances in certain parameters, the translator's style is highly consistent with that of the original writer; third, it can also be found that quantitative approach, especially quantitative stylistics is applicable and is of higher objectivity for the research of translation study.