翻译选择的政治思辨

从表层上看,翻译是一种语言转换活动。但从深层来看,翻译是一种跨文化的社会活动,因而不可避免地要受到两种语言所处社会的政治、经济、文化等因素的制约。因此,翻译作为社会生活的必要组成部分,是推动社会发展和文化融合的重要力量,具有鲜明的政治性,主要体现在译语语种选择、译料选择和译法选择三个方面。

English translation of modern Chinese verbal ＂-le＂ --A study based on English-Chinese ＆ Chinese-English parallel corpus

Through the contrastive study on functional load of ＂-le＂ in original Chinese texts and translated Chinese texts, the results show that past tense, perfective aspect and seldom other forms are the corresponding forms of ＂-le＂ and its translation has a close relationship with verb classes, pragmatic functions, contextual meaning and so on.

Corpora research of language transfer

The paper firstly reviews the developments of language transfer research. Utilizing the results supplied by CEM and AntConc, the present writer conducts analyses of the lexicai errors committed by the students in TEM-8 test and reveals the contributions to SLA and EFL language teaching that language transfer may make.

On Foreign Language Creation and Rootless Back Translation -A Case Study of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

With Adaptation Theory as its theoretical basis, this research makes comparison between Lisa See＇s original version of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Xin Yuanjie＇s Chinese translation based on a self-compiled manual annotation English-Chinese bilingual corpus. It aims at exploring the choice of language and the choice of translation method in the foreign language creation and rootless back-translation of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, discussing whether these choices adapt to the source language or the target language, and finding out the communicative effects they have achieved. The preliminary results show that： the choice of language and the choice of translation method in Foreign Language Creation mainly adapt to the target language to make easier for the target English readers to understand and partly adapt to the source language to keep local flavor; the choice of language and the choice of translation method in rootless back translation mainly adapt to the target language to make the translation authentic, accurate and smooth, and adaption to source language will lead to translationese. This research sheds new light on this special kind of writing and translation.

Real-Code Genetic Algorithm for Ground State Energies of Hydrogenic Donors in GaAs-（Ga,Al）As Quantum Dots

We present a global optimization method, called the real-code genetic algorithm (RGA), to the ground state energies. The proposed method does not require partial derivatives with respect to each variational parameter or solving an eigenequation, so the present method overcomes the major difficulties of the variational method. RGAs also do not require coding and encoding procedures, so the computation time and complexity are reduced. The ground state energies of hydrogenic donors in GaAs-(Ga,Al)As quantum dots have been calculated for a range of the radius of the quantum dot radii of practical interest. They are compared with those obtained by the variational method. The results obtained demonstrate the proposed method is simple, accurate, and easy implement.

On Application of Computer-based Corpora in Translation

Authors of papers to proceedings have to type these in a form suitable for direct photographic reproduction bthrough the research methods about analyzing computer corpus translation and inter-language research methods, and through comparison analysis about three of more thaxL four hundred thousand words, link adverbs in Chinese and English corpus and its corresponding Chinese word retrieval results, and make a detailed description of the characteristic for Chinese English learners and native English speakers, and thus provides an application example to study corpus in translation.

Comparative Analysis of Modal Auxiliary Verbs in English and in Chinese

The study of modal auxiliary verbs has been done by comparing modal auxiliary verbs in English with the ones in Chinese qualitatively and quantitatively. The modals in English and in Chinese are statistically analyzed through their forms and meanings. The data consists of 50 pieces of Chinese prose with their 50 English translation versions called corpus A and 50 pieces of English prose with their Chinese translation versions called corpus B, altogether 200 articles, which represent a type of discourse that is rich in modal auxiliary verbs both in English and in Chinese The major findings are as follows： （1） The three criteria： inversion, negation, and the use of pro-forms can be used to define both English and Chinese auxiliaries; （2） the modals of both languages can be analyzed within the same semantic categories： volition, probability, and necessity; （3） Chinese epistemic modals can have inversion patterns; （4） the negative forms of Chinese modals are more complex than those of English modals; and （5） the statistic analysis shows that the modals in probability category both in English and in Chinese are used much more often compared to the other two categories： volition and necessity and that deontic modals are used much fewer in both languages to express necessity

Laszlo Marton＇s Three Short Novels as a Translational Challenge

This paper deals with the problems encountered while translating the book of short novels M. L., a gyilkos （The Murderer L. M.）, written by the contemporary Hungarian author Lazlo Marton （b. 1959）. One of the most important reasons why the translator of this book （who also happens to be the author of this paper） has chosen to translate into Serbian this particular book, and not some other, more famous work of Marton, lies in the thematic, geocultural, and historical parallels with the Serbian context, which form the main fabular line of these short stories. The other, from the perspective of this paper, even more relevant reason for this translational choice can be found in the non-everyday challenge that Marton＇s hardly translatable style and language pose to the translator. This kind of a situation almost requires that the translator sacrifices formal fidelity to the original text and tries to find more creative solutions; in other words, it suggests choosing the principle of the so-called dynamic equivalence over the formal equivalence principle. In this respect, a special problem is the need to translate the so-called ＂talking names＂, a narrative trick with a great tradition in Hungarian literature. The aim of this paper is to try to answer, with the use of a representative corpus of examples, the following question： Is it possible and where can we draw limits in this author-translation related field of play, and what should be the level of consistency allowed to the translator, i.e., to what extent can he/she become the ＂coauthor＂of the translated work？

On the Multi-media Assisted Interpreting Teaching Strategies

This paper discusses the strengths of using the intemet and building corpus in interpretation teaching. The authors propose multi-media assisted interpretation teaching strategies such as building a small -sized controlled internal interpretation corpus, encouraging students to search information via the internet, and conducting teacher-student, student-student communication at all levels via E-mall, BBS, skype-in-English, audio/video conference and etc.

Cross-lingual implicit discourse relation recognition with co-training

A lack of labeled corpora obstructs the research progress on implicit discourse relation recognition （DRR） for Chinese, while there are some available discourse corpora in other languages, such as English. In this paper, we propose a cross-lingual implicit DRR framework that exploits an available English corpus for the Chinese DRR task. We use machine translation to generate Chinese instances from a labeled English discourse corpus. In this way, each instance has two independent views： Chinese and English views. Then we train two classifiers in Chinese and English in a co-training way, which exploits unlabeled Chinese data to implement better implicit DRR for Chinese. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.