Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication Studies in the Asia Pacific

Dr Leong Ko is Senior Lecturer of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published books, book chapters and many journal articles on translation and interpreting studies and pedagogy.Dr Ping Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published books, book chapters and many journal articles on linguistics, translation and interpreting studies.

• Table of ContentsPreface Section One — Translation Research Overview Translation Today and Translation Research: A World StoryJosé Lambert The Shifting Distance of TranslationYifeng Sun Chinese-English Translation: Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of GlobalisationYouyi HuangSection Two — Literary Translation Strategies of Cultural Translation: A Contrastive Analysis of the Two English Versions of Hong Lou MengBiao Zuo Translation for Performance: Oscar Wilde in ChinaLinyuan Wang Research on Reproduction of the Musicality in the Translation of ShengshengmanLixin Wang & Zhaodi Zhang Technological Interventions in Literary Meaning: A Case of Machine TranslationTong King Lee Translating Motion Events from English into Chinese: An Examination of Literary WorksVincent X. WangFishing for the Moon in the Water: Practical Challenges for a Translator in the Contact ZoneYauling Hsieh Section Three — Translation for Special Purposes How Is a Pseudo-Translation Manipulated? A Critical Look at the Production of Carl Weter’s Educational LawDaozhen Zhang A Study of Chinese Translation of Academic Works in English: A Panorama in ChinaKeyong He & Yuanyuan Chen Translation of Chinese Neologisms in the Cyber AgeRichard Yu A Study on the Translation Strategies in Korean-English Children’s Literature: From the Domesticated and Foreignised PerspectiveKwon Inkyoung A Study of Translating Extra-Textual Expressions from a Non-English Language into English: A Case of Contemporary Japanese Computer-Mediated CommunicationNoboru SakaiThe Impact of Glocalisation on Website TranslationYing-Ting Chuang & Yi-Ting Lee Section Four — Interpreting Norms of Target-Language Communication in Interpreting: A Descriptive Study Based on the Corpus of CEIPPCBinhua Wang Decision-Making at Different Stages of Development in Simultaneous Interpretation: Diction, Technique and StrategyCheng-shu Yang & Alan Chiu Coherence Establishment in Dialogue InterpretingLihua Jiang Section Five — Translation and Interpreting Training and IndustryUse of Consultation Material in NAATI Translation Accreditation Examinations: A Think-Aloud Protocol AnalysisCarl Gene Fordham Training Ethical Translators and InterpretersLeong Ko Moving from the Language Lab to the Interpreting Booth: Student PerceptionsLily Lim The Translation Industry in Taiwan in the Context of Globalisation: Facing the Development of Professional Translation and Master of Translation and InterpretingOscar Chun-hung Lin Bourdieu’s Capital and Latour’s Actor-Network Theory as Conceptual Tools in Translation ResearchSzu-Wen Kung Section Six — Cross-Cultural Communication Glocalising Voice and Style of Cosmopolitan in ChinaDoreen D. Wu & Agatha Man-kwan Chung A Window to Chinese Art: Translating Concepts and Culture in Auspicious Chinese PaintingMaria Cheng & Eric Choy A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Email Requests in Mandarin Chinese and Australian EnglishWei Li Language Medium and Self-Perceived Identity: A Case Study on Canadian Chinese-English BilingualsWenying Jiang Conceptualisation of Up and Down in Chinese and English: A Pilot StudyHaiyan Liang