Author：Jie Hu

Abstract: By the 1830’s, the contemporary historians tried to make a grand political state rhetoric about American Revolution, representing the textuality of history. Different from the main-stream historical discourse to idealize and sanctify revolution, Hawthorne reconstructed the process of history from the perspective of national character. His tales unveiled the rebirth of old puritan character in revolution，wept over the loss of traditional grace after revolution and predicted the radical self-blindness of new race under the new order. Therefore, Hawthorne‘s short tales about American revolution not only engaged a dialogue with the contemporary dominant ideology but also supplemented people’s multi-dimensional cognitive of revolution and partook the construction of historical discourse, which represented the historicity of text.

Column：Culture Studies   053-060   Details

Author：Qiong Li

Abstract: The profound social changes in nineteenth-century Britain triggered the emergence of detective fiction featuring women detectives. In the meantime, its two-sideness of cultural function was also shaped by the contradictory attitudes prevalent in British society towards the advancement of women...

Column：Culture Studies   061-069   Details

Author：Jinghua Zhang

Abstract: Being regarded as the first book which systematically introduced the world geography into China, Haiguotuzhi still has significant research values in terms of its translation of geographic terms. Despite of academic differences between China and the West, it manifests terminological conscio...

Column：Translation Studies   070-078   Details

Author：Hongjuan Xin, Zhouying Fei

Abstract: Taking “field”, “habitus” and “capital” in Bourdieusian theory as its theoretical underpinning, this paper offers a historical and descriptive review of the translation of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry by Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci. On analyzing the translators in the framework of historical background and of sociological context, this paper makes efforts to throw some epistemological and methodological light on revealing the connection of translation, subjectivity, society as well as culture.

Column：Translation Studies   079-088   Details

Author：Xiaojuan Lu, Xia Yu

Abstract: Exemplified by the root-seeking novel A Dictionary of Maqiao and its English version, this article explores the translating procedures of five types of culture-specific words, namely ecological, material, social, religious and linguistic culture-specific words. It tries to prove that George Steiner’ s hermeneutic translation motion theory plays a guiding role in the translation of culture-specific words in root-seeking novels. The findings show that: the procedure of translation of five types of culture-specific words in A Dictionary of Maqiao as a root-seeking novel can be well explained by Steiner’ s fourfold translation motion, which plays ...

Column：Translation Studies   089-097   Details

Author：Shiyu Peng, Huiying Zhang

Abstract: In the late 2016, there comes a translation platform named “Wuxiaworld” (wuxiaworld.com) mainly in responsible for translating Chinese online Xianxia and Xuanhuan novels into English for foreign readers, which has attracted attention by numerous domestic mainstream media. At present，t...

Column：Translation Studies   098-107   Details

Author：Shuangshuang Chen

Abstract: Paratext is an indispensable part of the text, which provides a new perspective regarding the study on translation works. By employing the theory of paratext put forward by Gerard Genette, this paper examines the differences of paratexts between the Chinese version and English version of two volumes of Xi Jinping: Governance of China. It is concluded that the translation of paratexts is closely linked to the content of the main text and the target readership is taken into consideration. Thus, flexibility is reflected due to the addition or reduction or adjustment during the translation process.

Column：Translation Studies   108-115   Details

Author：Hong Liu

Abstract: As a series of startling reflections on fundamental issues of translation, the book The Conference of tongues adopts an interdisciplinary study that brings concepts and ideas from social system theory, literary theory, international law and even theology to explore translation. It throws new light on familia...

Column：Translation Studies   116-125   Details

Author：Chen Cai

Abstract: By taking 124 second-year non-English majors as participants, this study attempts to explore through a test and a questionaire the effects of creativity and English proficiency on their ability to interpret multimodal metaphors in English advertisements. The results are as follows: 1) Creativity and English proficiency are positively related to multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability; 2) Learners’ creativity and English proficiency interact with each other on multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability. Among the groups with good English proficiency, the multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability of the high creativity learners is better than that of the low creativity learners. The results show that the learners’ creativity and English proficiency can significantly predict their multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability, and the dominant effect of creativity is based on English proficiency.

Column：Linguistic Studies   126-136   Details

Author：Chunyan Jia

Abstract: The security dimension of language planning is one of the major topics in the contemporary study of language planning and language policy. In order to fulfill the effects and values for language planning, it should be strengthened the study on language planning in the Xinjiang. The paper draws on two dimensions that are the current foreign languages capacities of Xinjiang higher education and an extensive survey of foreign languages demand of Xinjiang.

Column：Linguistic Studies   137-145   Details