Author：Qiliang Cui

Abstract: Translators' technical practical competence is the technical ability that translators should have when they are engaged in translation practice. The translation technology in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) has a great impact on translation work and requires translators’ ability of using technolo...

Column：AI Translation Studies   104-110   Details

Author：Zhongyao Zheng

Abstract: Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) technology is playing more and more important role in translation and interpreting domains in the new era when the construction of CAT labs has to be taken into consideration. Therefore, the thorough research is conducted on the basis of personal experience of the whole constructing process t...

Column：AI Translation Studies   111-122   Details

Author：Shuneng Zhong, Jiayi Deng

Abstract: The present article examines the categorical re-correspondence on the lexical, the syntactic and the textual levels in Chinese-English translation. Based on cognitive linguistics, it is assumed that the horizontal dimension of a category is concerning the radial ...

Column：Translation Studies   123-132   Details

Author：Jianhua Wang, Jing Li

Abstract: The objective indicators and high ecological validity enable the eye-tracking technology to be widely used in fixed text reading research. It is until 1980s that eye-tracker has been used for investigating audiovisual multimodal text reading behavior and its cognitive mechanism. Starting f...

Column：Translation Studies   133-142   Details

Author：Chao Yan

Abstract: The degree of lexicalization of manner demonstratives irəhke, kɯrəhke, ʧərəhke in Korean is controversial. We argued that, based on the mental lexicon, the lexical status of Korean manner demonstratives should be accepted. Firstly, the suffix -ke is a complex of inflection and deri...

Column：Liguistic Studies   143-152   Details

Author：Zhenwu Zhu, Yuxuan Liu

Abstract: Nuruddin Farah is a representative writer of contemporary Somali literature. In Links, Farah shows the broken and devastated Somali society through the eyes of the protagonist Jeebleh. He exposes and criticizes one of the main causes of social problems, which is the clanism. Furthermore, ...

Column：African Literature Studies   002-009   Details

Author：Chunyi Lu, Dehe Feng

Abstract: Devil on the Cross is a novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in the prison. The novel does not continue to retell the history as Ngũgĩ’s previous novels do. It takes independent Kenya as its historical background and irony as its main technique to show the seemingly absurd but actually real Kenyan society. By usi...

Column：African Literature Studies   010-016   Details

Author：Shangrui Pan, Yunchun Lan

Abstract: Through the double perspectives of the black father and son, Nadine Gordimer depicted the vivid image of Aila growing from a silent black woman to a determined revolutionary in My Son’s Story. The African heroism “Aila’s Left” reveals the intervention and influence of the social reality on priva...

Column：African Literature Studies   017-024   Details

Author：Kaili Xiaokaiti, Min Lu

Abstract: No Longer at Ease is a novel written by Chinua Achebe shortly before the independence of Nigeria. The author describes the collision between Western and African food cultures in the novel so as to reveal that the Nigerian traditional culture is gradually disintegrated by the Western culture. The writing of food cultures ...

Column：African Literature Studies   025-031   Details

Author：Jing Duan, Zengqi Li

Abstract: Under the background of internationalization and globalization, the cultivation of foreign language talents with cultural understanding and communication skills has become more and more important. With the introduction of The Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, on the one hand, Sino Af...

Column：African Literature Studies   032-039   Details