Table 1 Registers and genres in the four corpora.

From: Variability of cohesion and coherence in Chinese-to-English translation: measuring the effect of translation variety and register divergence

Register

Code

Genre

Texts

Tokens

FLOB

COCE

LCMCD

LCMCG

News

A-C

News

88

199,077

183,101

179,763

187,000

General

D

Religious writing

17

38,485

34,968

32,688

33,441

 

E

Skills, trade and hobbies

38

85,538

78,702

68,461

76,785

 

F

Popular lore

44

99,079

91,134

83,278

88,051

 

G

Biographies and essays

77

174,321

161,455

148,769

157,176

 

H

Miscellaneous

30

67,014

61,616

69,031

71,210

Academic

J

Science

80

182,109

164,704

151,876

157,781

Fiction

K

General fiction

29

68,836

59,815

52,309

54,767

 

L

Mystery and detective

24

57,209

49,566

44,326

46,458

 

M

Science fiction

6

14,149

12,380

10,222

10,908

 

N

Adventure fiction

29

67,905

58,869

50,399

55,678

 

P

Romantic fiction

29

68,326

59,834

51,056

52,877

 

R

Humour

9

21,223

18,825

16,403

16,704

Total

  

500

1,143,271

1,034,969

958,581

1,008,836