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- Brazilian Left-wing Literature
Author：Xing Fan
Abstract: The rise and development of left-wing literature in Brazil is closely connected to the obstacles and dilemmas encountered during the evolution of its nation, and it is also inseparable from international political movements and intellectual trends. From the abolishment of slavery and collapse of empire in the nineteenth century, to the establishmen...
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 074-084 Details
- A Study on Translation Technology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Connotation, Classification and Trends
Author：Huashu Wang,Zhi Li
Abstract: In the era of artificial intelligence, booming language services and state-of-the-art translation technologies have exerted profound influences on translation practice. To achieve a better understanding of translation technology, the paper first focuses on the connotation, classification and trends from the macro and micro aspects and then classifies translation technology based on automation degree, translation process, translation objects and functions. Finally, the study unveils the whole picture of translation technology by further discussing different elements within and the whole system.
Column：AI Translation Studies 086-095 Details
- New Perspectives of Translation Studies Against the Background of the Technological Turn
Author：Chengzhi Zhang
Abstract: Translation technologies are widely used in translation practice, yet they just contribute little to translation theories. This paper states the definition of the technological turn, analyses the indifference between translation technologies and translation theories, and finally explores the...
Column：AI Translation Studies 096-103 Details
- A Study on the Translators' Technical Practical Competence in the AI Era
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
- Research on the Construction of CAT Lab in the New Era
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
- A Study of Categorical Re-correspondence in Chinese-English Translation from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
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
- Eye-tracking in Audiovisual Multimodal Text Research: Applications, Progress and Prospects
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
- On the Lexicalization of Korean Manner Demonstratives from the Perspective of Mental Lexicon
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
- Living in Hell, Longing for Heaven: The Creation of Links by Somali Novelist Nuruddin Farah
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
- The Imprisoned Ironist: A Study of Irony in Devil on the Cross
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