Metaphors represent one of the major problems a translator may encounter. A number of studies have been carried out on metaphor translation in literary texts; however, in political discourse studies are scarce and still limited. Therefore, the main obj…
The study provides an innovative insight into the engagement of translation in remodeling Chinese “root-seeking” literature into world literature. By selecting Han Shaogong’s A Dictionary of Maqiao and its English translation completed by Julia Lovell …
The present paper aims at shedding some illuminating light on the formidable effect The Epic of Gilgamesh (2100-1200 BC) still leaves on modern and contemporary poets, apart from a host of scholars, historians, archeologists and researchers. As creativ…
Three questions are currently confronting the fast-developing sociological approach to translation studies, namely, “How must it be named?”, “How could it be defined?” and “How should its model of research be evaluated?”, which is involving the subject…
The first Chinese translation of The Great Gatsby was published on the mainland of China in 1983, and it was the translation of Wu Ningkun. The context of the times at that time, the early period after the end of the Cultural Revolution and the beginni…