2020(Vol. 4)

  • Dilemma and Transcendence: An Analysis of the Racial Politics in Down These Mean Streets from the Perspective of Transnationalism

    Author:Tianran Chen

    Abstract: Race is the core issue of nation-state identification that Piri Thomas elaborates in his memoir Down These Mean Streets. As a second-generation Puerto Rican immigrant, Piri tries to integrate himself into American society without losing his ethnicity, but his physical features shared with African Americans make him into a predicament of racial identification. While in repositioning Piri’s racial identity in a U.S-Puerto Rican discourse, the writer depicts a transnational identity, an alternative vision of nation-state identification, which is capable of transcending both the rigid structures of nationalism and the constraints of racial particularity. It opens the way for new alliances and new resistant strategies, thus expanding the meaning of national-state identification discourse.

    Column:Literature and Culture Studies   069-078   Details

  • International Medical Language Service Needs Analysis and Talent Training

    Author:Cong Guo, Chengshu Yang

    Abstract: Global population mobility has promoted the development of international medical care, and the demand for language service talents in medical fields has increased. Language service provider training should be close to market demand, based on the local situation and facing the future. By using the methods o...

    Column:Translation Studies   079-091   Details

  • Research Methodologies in Translation Studies: Curriculum Design and Practice

    Author:Zhenzhen Wang, Youlan Tao

    Abstract: As methodologies are very crucial to Translation Studies (TS), we think it necessary to open a course of Research Methodologies in TS to enhance students’ awareness of research after researching similar courses at universities at home and abroad. This paper demonstrates how to design and implement suc...

    Column:Translation Studies   092-104   Details

  • Sidney Shapiro's Creative Writing in his Translation of Female Discourse in Fictions

    Author:Dongsheng Ren, Yangyang Duan

    Abstract: Sidney Shapiro's translation behavior can be summarized as “Specimen Translation,” in which there are some fictions with women being heroines. By a comparative study on Shapiro’s translation and the original, it can be found that there exist different varieties and degrees of creative writing in Shapiro’s translation of female discourse in novels, which is embodied in the fact that his translation not only rewrites the original in fluent and natural language as original authors do, but also adds value to the original by creative use of words and artistic techniques, as well as reproduces the original style and meets readers’ acceptability at the same time, so it is worth learning for other translators who are committed to the Chinese literature going out.

    Column:Translation Studies   105-113   Details

  • Textual Hybridity and Zero-translation

    Author:Xueming Wang,Lanxin Li

    Abstract: Zero-translation, since its creation, has been in constant contention. The relevant literature review reveals a reductionist trend in the connotation of the term, with the narrowest theorization defining it as the transference of a semiotic sign from the source text into the target text in an intact form. This understanding, despite its rationality to a certain extent, does not take into account the complexity of translation. This paper gives a further exploration of the concept in terms of texttype, hybridity of the source text and translation direction, and argues that zero-translation, being the transference of the source form, should not interfere with the norms and habit of the target language nor deny the roles of the translator’s subjectivity.

    Column:Translation Studies   114-123   Details

  • A Study on the Change of Language Policy in Afghanistan and Its Implications in the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative

    Author:Jianrong Guo

    Abstract: Afghanistan is not only the trade hub of the ancient “Silk Road”, but also an important country along the “Belt and Road Initiative”, characterized by multi-ethnicity, multi-tribe, multi-language and multi-dialect. This article discusses the histori...

    Column:Liguistic Studies   124-132   Details

  • A Study of Language Ecology and Language Policy in Pakistan

    Author:Chunyan Jia

    Abstract: From the perspectives of language ecology and language policy, this paper introduces the language situation of Pakistan, an important neighbor of China, and analyzes the characteristics of Pakistan’s language policy. Pakistan is a multi-ethnic and multilingual country. In terms of language policy, on the one hand, it ...

    Column:Liguistic Studies   133-143   Details

  • Effects of the Pre-emptive FoF Instructions on Junior High School Students’ Acquisition of English Simple Past Tense

    Author:Minzhe Chen, Fang Hou, Fengting Zhong

    Abstract: It is generally believed that the explicit pre-emptive FoF instruction (EPFoFI) is more effective in English grammar teaching and learning than the implicit pre-emptive FoF instruction (IPFoFI). Based on the Interaction Hypothesis, this paper studies EPFoFI’s an...

    Column:Liguistic Studies   144-156   Details

  • The Construction of Xu Yun's Poetic View under the Influence of the Seven Sons of the Ming Dynasty

    Author:Meihua Cai, Tanghua Yuan

    Abstract: Xu Yun lived during the middle and late Ming dynasty, and the movement for restoring ancient ways initiated by the seven sons of the Ming dynasty had a great influence on him. When he accepted the thought of restoring ancient ways in the literature of the seven sons of Ming dynast...

    Column:   001-012   Details

  • Respect China and Expose Evil: The Image of the Ming Dynasty in the Works of the Korean Envoys to China

    Author:Dongri Xu

    Abstract: In the Ming Dynasty, China and Korea maintained a very close relationship. The Korean nation absorbed Chinese culture and showed a general imagining of “Utopia” to the Ming Dynasty. In the documentary diary Chaotianlu by Korean envoys, the Ming Government was greatly complim...

    Column:   013-022   Details

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