Learning Chinese political formulaic phraseology from a self-built bilingual United Nations Security Council corpus

Abstract This pilot study investigates the formulaic phraseology most frequently used in highly political documents by examining a self-built bilingual parallel corpus of 43 speeches delivered United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meetings Chinese representatives. The also probes corpus-based approaches to explore and demonstrates method retrieve from UNSC corpus. Formulaic is often seen discourse. It can be defined as sequence, continuous or discontinuous, words other meaning elements that are, appear be, prefabricated, stored retrieved whole memory at time use rather than being subject generation analysis language grammar. begins with literature review phraseology, including its features significance simultaneous interpreting. then exhibits four-step retrieval process Sketch Engine software program acquire fill previous studies’ gap. Key functional units Engine, Wordlist, N-grams, Concordance, are extract Methodological issues involved identifying such length quantitative criteria (frequency dispersion thresholds), discussed study. Three types identified: (1) greeting representatives members expressing appreciation; (2) concerns about topic meeting; (3) China’s viewpoints meeting. training interpreters would more effective if this categorization incorporated into curriculum.