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Tapping into the Present Political Translation and Editing in China: Problems and Pathways as Reported by Multi-players 挖掘中国政治翻译与编辑的现状:多方报道的问题与路径

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i1.59

Junchao Wang

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Constructing Chinese Cultural Identity Internationally in Translated Political Discourse: A Corpus Analysis of the English Versions of President Xi Jinping’s International Addresses

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i1.63

Hua Tan, Bing Xiong

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Quoting Chinese Political Discourse through Translation: An Analysis of Xi Jinping’s Climate Change Discourse in English-language News Media

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i1.57

Yuan Ping

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Book Review "Online Collaborative Translation in China and Beyond: Community, Practice, and Identity" 书评《中外在线协同翻译:社群、实践与认同》

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i1.66

Y. Qin

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Book Review "Empirical Studies of Translation and Interpreting: The Post-Structuralist Approach" 书评《翻译的实证研究:后结构主义视角》

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2023-03-08 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v1i1.30

Bihao Li

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Patterns of Attention and Quality in English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpreting with Text 英汉语篇同声传译的注意与质量模式

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.50

Long-jian Zou, M. Carl, Jia Feng

{"title":"Patterns of Attention and Quality in English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpreting with Text","authors":"Long-jian Zou, M. Carl, Jia Feng","doi":"10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.50","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous interpreting with text (SIMTXT) is generally seen as being cognitively more demanding than either simultaneous interpreting (SI) or sight translation (STT). However, little research has been done on how interpreters allocate their attention proportionally during SIMTXT between their auditory and visual attention. This study examines attention patterns during SIMTXT and investigates the relationship between the interpreters’ attention patterns and the quality of the interpreting output. Nine professional interpreters were recruited for SIMTXT, interpreting six English STs into Chinese. The interpreters listened to the audio input while the transcribed text of the audio input was displayed on the screen by Translog-II. The eye movements were recorded by an eye-tracker (Tobii TX300) while their interpretations were recorded by Audacity. The gaze and the spoken data (source and target) were synchronized on a word-level and aligned with the final STs and TTs. We explored and categorized the visual and auditory attention patterns based on their ear-voice span (EVS), eye-voice span (IVS), and ear-eye span (EIS) and found three types of attention patterns in our data, namely, ear-dominant (ED), eye-dominant (ID), and ear-eye-balanced (EIB). In addition, the interpreting output was annotated by three professional interpreters based on an error taxonomy adapted from Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM). We found that the EIB interpreters produced the lowest translation quality in terms of total error numbers and accuracy, followed by ED, and then ID interpreters. ED interpreters produced the highest translation quality in terms of fluency, followed by EIB, and then ID interpreters.","PeriodicalId":314813,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124094725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Employing Genre Analysis and Parallel Texts as a Guide to Translating Medical Research Articles between Chinese and English 用体裁分析和平行语篇指导医学研究论文的汉英翻译

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.51

Zhao Bing, J. Hlavac

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Global Insights into Public Service Interpreting: Theory, Practice and Training 公共服务口译的全球视角:理论、实践与培训

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.32

Ran Yi

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A Study on the Different Original Versions Used in the Translation of Hong Lou Meng by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang 杨宪益、杨玉玲译《红楼梦》的不同译本研究

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2022-12-14 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.39

Yuanqiong Wu, Xiaomin Liu

{"title":"A Study on the Different Original Versions Used in the Translation of Hong Lou Meng by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang","authors":"Yuanqiong Wu, Xiaomin Liu","doi":"10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.39","url":null,"abstract":"Hong Lou Meng is a classical Chinese novel with worldwide influence. It is a canon with a fluid text—the multiple versions of the novel; as a result, has posed huge challenges to translators. The fluid text is also the source of conflicting statements about the original versions used by Yang Xianyi (1915-2009) and his wife Gladys Yang (1919-1999) in their translation of the novel. Different parties involved in the translation, including Yang Xianyi—the translator, Wu Shichang—the then English editor, and the Foreign Languages Press—the publisher of the Yangs’ complete translation Hong Lou Meng, reported differently on the original versions. Due to its prominent importance in Chinese culture, Hong Lou Meng represents the status quo of Chinese literature in the global community. The Yangs’ translation of Hong Lou Meng in 120 chapters, being one of the two published complete English translations of the novel, has been an important focus of study in both literature and translation. However, the diverse narrations on the original versions have not been resolved so far, and the identity of the original versions remains ambiguous, therefore, the study of the Yangs’ translation has been impacted and mitigated. This work applies the methods of close textual reading and collation comparing the Yangs’ translation excerpts published earlier in Chinese Literature with their later complete version of the novel; associating the translation practice with the then social background, therefore establishing the identity of the original versions used by the Yangs at different stages of their translation. This paper explores the factors that have influenced the Yangs’ translation of Hong Lou Meng, as well as the impact of these factors on the significance of the novel.","PeriodicalId":314813,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125217607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Neutralising Tendency in Subtitling Chinese Culture-Specific References into English 汉语文化参考资料英译中的中和倾向

International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting Pub Date : 2022-12-13 DOI: 10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.45

Xichen Sun

{"title":"Neutralising Tendency in Subtitling Chinese Culture-Specific References into English","authors":"Xichen Sun","doi":"10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56395/ijceti.v2i2.45","url":null,"abstract":"Culture-specific references (hereafter CSRs) feature prominently in films by Chinese fifth- and sixth-generation directors. Based on the observation of 25 English-subtitled Chinese films made by four directors between 1984 and 2017, this paper identifies that the CSRs in the original Chinese dialogue are neutralised in their English subtitles through various translation strategies. The CSRs examined in this study encompass CSRs of customs in Zhang Yimou’s films, CSRs of local arts in Chen Kaige’s films, slang in Jia Zhangke’s films, and humour in Feng Xiaogang’s films, respectively embodying the quintessence of each director’s filmmaking style. A textual analysis is conducted to demonstrate how and why the neutralising tendency emerges in subtitling these Chinese CSRs. It is revealed that the strategies of explicitation, substitution, transposition, compensation and omission are employed to neutralise the CSRs. From a linguistic perspective, such a neutralising tendency can be attributed to the lack of equivalence in English culture, the polysemy of the Chinese CSRs, the compactness of the Chinese language, and sometimes the mistaken intralingual Chinese subtitles. As a constrained translation activity, the subtitling itself aggravates the neutralisation of the CSRs due to technical constraints and target audience considerations. As these films are representative Chinese films, the neutralisation indicates a product norm on the best practice of subtitling high-profile Chinese films. Meanwhile, it is a linguistic explanation for the cultural discount in translating Chinese audiovisual productions (Díaz-Cintas & Zhang, 2022).","PeriodicalId":314813,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126301974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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International Journal of Chinese and English Translation &amp; Interpreting最新文献

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