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- Seeking Reconciliation through Translation: A Study on W. H. Medhurst's Translation of "Li (理)" in Cheng-Zhu Confucianism
Author：Siyang Shuai
Abstract: As the core concept in Lixue 理学 (or Cheng-Zhu Confucianism), Li 理 has all along been endowed with complicated meanings, signifying moral principles as well as the transcendent origin and governing power of the universe. It attracted scholarly attention...
Column：Translation History Studies 053-068 Details
- Study on the Acceptability and Influence of the Chinese Translation of Gankutsuou
Author：Ling Yu
Abstract: During the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there emerged plenty of Chinese versions of Le Comte de Monte Cristo, a novel by French novelist Alexandre Dumas. Taking the Chinese versions of Gankutsuou (Le Comte de Monte Cristo) serialized in Sichuan literary supplement The Record o...
Column：Translation History Studies 069-082 Details
- A Comparative Study of Human Translation and Machine Translation Post-editing in E-C Translation: Translation Speed, Quality and Translators' Attitude
Author：Xiangling Wang, Tingting Wang
Abstract: With the help of keylogging and questionnaire, this paper compares two translation patterns, i.e. human translation and machine translation post-editing, in E-C translation in terms of productivity, quality and translators’ attitude. The following findings are revealed: (1) In E-C translation of technical text, machine translation post-editing can significantly decrease task time and improve translation speed. (2) Compared with human translation, machine translation post-editing produces translations with less errors...
Column：Translation Studies 083-093 Details
- On the English Translation of "di"(帝) in Shijing with Reference to Four English Versions of Shijing
Author：Xiaolong Wu
Abstract: “Di” (帝) is an important character with religious color in Shijing, loaded with the primitive religious culture of the ancient Chinese society. This paper aims to study the English translation of “di” (帝) with reference to the statistical analysis of its translations in f...
Column：Translation Studies 094-102 Details
- A Study of "Emotive Intensifier + X" Construction
Author：Fen Liu
Abstract: Previous studies mainly focus on the “Degree Adverb + X” construction, and they seldom pay attention to “Emotive Intensifier + X” construction. Under the framework of Construction Grammar, by exploring the construction representation and its different forms and meanings of the structure of “Emotive Intensifier + X”, and ...
Column：Liguistic Studies 103-112 Details
- The Depth of Cognitive Processing of Metonymy within a Cognitive-pragmatic Perspective
Author：Zhenqiang Fan
Abstract: The depth of metonymic processing is a newly-emerged key issue in cognitive metonymy studies. A multi-level conceptual analysis reveals that metonymy operates within a matrix domain or metonymic complex, which includes four hierarchical levels: image-schema, domain, frame and mental space. On ...
Column：Liguistic Studies 113-129 Details
- CET Washback Effects on the Achievement Test of College English: A Study Based on the Analysis of the Finals of Ten Universities and Teacher Interviews
Author：Lianzhong Dong
Abstract: This study investigates the washback effects of CET on the achievement test of college English, and it employs the end-term exams of 10 colleges or universities in Beijing and interviews of college English directors and lecturers. The results of the study demonstrate that the end-term exams of most colleges or universities do not include oral English test, but simply copy the CET in aspects of its test contents, question types, and the score weight; the end-term exams of key universities, however, are less impacted by using a variety of subjective question types to examine students’ comprehensive English competence; and the causes resulting in the above distinctions can be partly attributed to the lack of language assessment literacy of college English directors and teachers. Hence, a number of measures, such as accelerating the end-term exam reform, introducing the oral English test and increasing its score weight in the end-term exam,
Column：Liguistic Studies 130-138 Details
- Portuguese Linguistic Colonisation and Language Policy: Brazil and Mozambique, between Diversity, Inequality and Differences
Author：Bethania Mariani
Abstract: This article aims to discuss conceptually the distinctions between diversity, inequality and difference in relation to the Portuguese language of two nations that underwent processes of linguistic colonisation. To do so, it intends to present shifts in the meaning of the Portuguese language during the colonisation process and the post-independence process in Brazil and Mozambique.
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 003-013 Details
- The Museum Brazil: Cultural Cannibalism as an Answer to the Predicaments of a Shakespearean Culture
Author：João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Abstract: Shakespearean cultures are the ones whose self-definition heavily relies on the determination of a foreigner’s gaze. Their self-perception originates in the gaze of an Other. Thus, in such circumstance, the centrality of the other demands the prominence of the mimetic impulse in the shaping of national identity, which cannot but evoke a paradoxical constellation, based upon a constant oscillation between the own and the foreigner. For a start, Latin American cultures emerged in the shadow of the Other, an (almost) absolute model.
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 014-024 Details
- The "Cordial Man": A Latin American Concept in the Brazilian Essay
Author：Pedro Meira Monteiro
Abstract: This article analyzes Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Roots of Brazil, a seminal book in the Brazilian essayist tradition. Discussion begins with the limits of Brazil’s search for national specificity, so as to consider Brazilian cultural formation as a projection of its colonial Iberian roots. In this context, t...
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 025-034 Details