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- Exploring the Value Spaces of Human Translation in the ChatGPT Era and the Transitions Needed for Translation Education
Author：An Du
Abstract: So far, the outstanding translation performance exhibited by artificial general intelligence (AGI) like ChatGPT has been arousing a wide-ranging discussion in and out of the translation field, and it is not rare to feel an air of concern about the prospects of human translation as well as translation education. Against this backdrop, this article begins with an introduction to the AGI’s mechanism of contextualized generation, and then analyzes the limitations of ChatGPT-like automatic translation in realizing the ideational, interpersonal and textual meta-functions as required in translation as a meaning-making ...
Column：Translation Technology and Education in the ChatGPT Era 090-103 Details
- From Interpersonal Ethics to Human-Machine Ethics: An Exploration Into Translation Ethics in the Era of ChatGPT
Author：Chengzhi Zhang,Chunliang Zhang
Abstract: Since its launch at the end of November 2022, ChatGPT has become popular worldwide and has been widely used in translation practice, teaching, and research. This study reviews the development and evolution of translation ethics, analyzes the ethical risks posed by ChatGPT in terms of creativity, translator subjectivity, and data security, and proposes the establishment of a sound regulatory mechanism, the enhancement of translators’ technological ethics literacy, the training of searching quotient and inquiry quotient, and the construction of a healthy human-machine ethical environment to achieve ethical governance of technology.
Column：Translation Technology and Education in the ChatGPT Era 104-112 Details
- Zhou Dunyi’s Philosophy and a Research on the Translations of His Works
Author：Hongxin Jiang
Abstract: Zhou Dunyi is an epoch-making philosopher, owning the credit of breaking the darkness of Confucian inheritance for more than 1,500 years from the time of Confucius and Mencius to the early Song Dynasty. Zhou is not only a practitioner of orthodoxical Confucianism with such core ideas like “sincerity” and ...
Column：Translation Studies 113-122 Details
- On Translation of the May Fourth Period and the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism
Author：Jiao Li, Haiyan Xie
Abstract: During the May Fourth Period, Chinese intellectuals were greatly influenced by western cosmopolitanism. As they attempted to translate western literary works into Chinese, many translators intentionally incorporated ecological concerns into their cosmopolitan outlook, displaying a broader view beyon...
Column：Translation Studies 123-135 Details
- Change and Transformation: Common Core of Interlingual Transformation and Intersemiotic Shift
Author：Xiujuan Guan, Wanqi Zhang
Abstract: Translation variation and complete translation are a pair of translation categories. Change is the essential attribute of translation variation, featured with a big change (qualitative change) while transformation is the essential attribute of complete translation, characterized with a small change (quantitative change). This paper reviews the improvement process and application fields of translation variation and complete translation with “change” and “transformation” as their cores respectively, attempts to extend these interlingual transformation rules to intersemiotic shift, and explores the multi-modal conversion laws. It is found that the ...
Column：Translation Studies 136-145 Details
- Literature without Borders: An Interview with Chen Zhongyi
Author：João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Abstract: Literature without Borders: An Interview with Chen Zhongyi by João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Column：Lushan Bitan 146-156 Details
- American Magic: From Brilliance to Darkness
Author：Zhao Yifan
Abstract: Johan Galtung, a Norwegian writer published in 2008 a book entitled The Fall of the US Empire. This book declares the USA enjoys its “magic” Power, just as the Roman Empire did before. But the US Empire is bound to collapse, so long as its “magic” Power is gone, as the Roman history tells us. Professor Galtung’s prediction about ...
Column：China and the US by ZHAO Yifan 001-012 Details
- Gender Politics and Post-colonial Writing in Annamarie Jagose’s Slow Water
Author：Min Tan
Abstract: Annamarie Jagose’s novel Slow Water is a neo-Victorian novel based on the colonial history of the British Empire in New Zealand. As a modern novelist, Jagose presents and reconstructs an eclipsed historical event which happened in Victorian age, revealing how the British Empire applied gender politics t...
Column：Contemporary New Zealand Literature Studies Details
- The Overseas Literary Representation of Bougainville Civil War: On Cultural Identity Construction in New Zealand Novel Mister Pip
Author：Luechang Liu, Le Wu
Abstract: Due to the intervention of multiple external forces, the Bougainville Civil War in Papua New Guinea has evolved into a regional issue. New Zealand contemporary novelist Lloyd Jones provides a representation of the civil war in Mister Pip, revealing the cultural identity construction of different communities in Melanesia. From the perspective of cultural identity as proposed by Stuart Hall, this paper argues that Mr. Watts who represents the immigrants on Bougainville Island, Dolores and her daughter on behalf of two generations of aborigines, construct their own cultural identities through grafting British culture, protecting native culture and blending the two cultures together. To some extent, Mister Pip metaphorizes the cultural trajecto
Column：Contemporary New Zealand Literature Studies 023-033 Details
- Ineffable Desire: On Ethical Anxiety in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Author：Yanwen Guo
Abstract: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” shows the complicated psychological process of courtship. However, the unidentified woman in the poem possibly lacks the reality of presence, while Prufrock obviously shows his sexual desire for women. Yet facing with the ethical dilemma, the poet Eliot skillfu...
Column：Literature and Culture Studies 034-043 Details