1st Edition

Of Mind and Machine Textual Accountability in Translation and for Translator Training

Edited By Chunshen Zhu, Chengzhi Jiang Copyright 2024
246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Of Mind and Machine provides a broad perspective on multi-level dialogic engagements between text and reader as seen from the use of language in presenting information to generate a discursive experience in various sociocultural settings. The book observes contexts such as national literature in translation, diplomatic speech events, visual-verbal inter-semiotic translation, second language... Read more

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I

1. Rhetoric as the antistrophos of pragmatics: Towards a ‘Competition of Cooperation’ in the study of language use

Yameng Liu and Chunshen Zhu

2. Translation criticism and the active presence of Chinese literature in the world

Yameng Liu and Chunshen Zhu

3. Dancing with ideology: Grammatical metaphor and identity presentation in translation

Chunshen Zhu and Junfeng Zhang

4. Bilingual and intersemiotic representation of distance(s) in Chinese landscape painting: From yi (‘meaning’) to yi (‘freedom’) Chengzhi Jiang and Chunshen Zhu

5 A study of yes/ no questions in English and Chinese: With special reference to Chinese EFL learners’ understanding of their forms and functions

Chunshen Zhu and Xudong Wu

6. The speech- act nature of interpreting and its implications for interpreter training

Chunshen Zhu and Jackie Xiu Yan

PART II

7. ClinkNotes: Towards a corpus- based, machine- aided program of translation teaching

Chunshen Zhu and Po- Ching Yip

8. A corpus- based, machine- aided mode of translator training: ClinkNotes and beyond

Chunshen Zhu and Hui Wang

9. Towards a textual accountability-driven mode of computer-aided translator training: Rationale, design, and

development of an online teaching and self- learning platform

Chunshen Zhu and Yuanyuan Mu

10. Making connections through knowledge nodes in translator training: On a computer-assisted pedagogical approach to literary translation

Lu Tian and Chunshen Zhu

Index

 

Biography

Chunshen Zhu is Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen).

Chengzhi Jiang is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at Wuhan University.