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Research on the Reproduction of Original Text Style in the English Translation of Chinese Architectural Aesthetics
Chinese architectural aesthetics, imbued with profound philosophical thought, cultural connotations, and artistic spirit, sees its English translation as a vital component of China's "going global" strategy for culture. However, the significant disparities between Chinese and Western thinking patterns, aesthetic systems, and linguistic structures pose a core challenge: how to accurately convey the aesthetic essence and unique style of the original text in the translation. This paper aims to systematically investigate the issue of style reproduction in the English translation of texts on Chinese architectural aesthetics. It focuses on the stylistic features of such texts at the lexical, syntactic, rhetorical, and textual levels, and the challenges encountered during cross-cultural transfer. By constructing an integrated analytical framework encompassing "Linguistic," "Cultural," and "Aesthetic" dimensions, this study selects English translations of classical and contemporary architectural texts, such as The Craft of Gardens and Chinese Architecture: Art and Artisanship, for detailed comparative case analysis. The findings reveal a trend in style reproduction strategies, shifting from a dominance of "domestication" towards a balance between "foreignization" and "compensation." Successful translations manage to preserve the poetic quality, ambiguity, and philosophical depth of the original texts within the acceptability limits of the target readers, through creative use of English lexicon and syntax, flexible handling of culture-specific terms, and skillful transplantation of rhetorical imagery. The study concludes that the reproduction of style in translating Chinese architectural aesthetics is a dynamic and creative process of "rewriting," whose ultimate goal is to achieve cultural fidelity and aesthetic equivalence, rather than mechanical word-for-word correspondence. This research holds theoretical and practical significance for enhancing the quality of translating Chinese architectural culture and deepening the dialogue between Chinese and Western architectural aesthetics.
Copyright (c) 2026 Anni Zhong http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Generative AI and the Shaping of Academic Voice: Language, Normalization, and Epistemic Justice in AI-mediated Assessment
Despite the potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to support research and academic production, attention must be paid to its implications for human learning and the development of voices and epistemologies in multilingual contexts. A central concern in critiques of GenAI is that language is frequently treated as a transparent medium, rather than as a site where biases and hierarchies are produced and reproduced by AI systems. This paper argues that GenAI intersects with existing hierarchies of academic knowledge production, assessment, and validation, especially in relation to the voices of multilingual authors. This study reports findings from an empirical analysis of academic writing produced by multilingual Master’s students under contrasting assessment conditions: a restricted digital examination environment and an unrestricted setting with full access to online tools. Rather than seeking to detect AI use, the analysis examines how different assessment regimes shape register consistency, source integration, authorial voice and linguistic diversity. Findings suggest that unrestricted environments are associated with higher surface-level academic quality, but also with increased pressures toward normalization, potentially erasing linguistic diversity, weakening authorial voice and marginalizing alternative rhetorical and epistemic traditions. The paper concludes by advocating language-aware approaches to GenAI to enable epistemic justice and language diversity.
Copyright (c) 2026 Linda Bradley, Kyria Rebeca Finardi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Study on Translation Strategies of International Publicity Texts from the Perspective of Skopos Theory
Against the backdrop of China’s high-quality international cooperation in political coordination, economic and trade exchanges, and cultural mutual learning, international publicity text translation, a core cross-cultural communication medium, has gained prominent strategic value. However, practical translation problems persist, making it urgent to explore optimized translation strategies. This study first clarifies the three major characteristics and classification of international publicity texts and elaborates on the three core principles of Skopos Theory. Centered on case analysis, it explores the specific application of domestication and foreignization strategies. Foreignization preserves the original cultural traits and discourse logic via zero translation, transliteration, literal translation and word-for-word translation. Domestication, by adopting free translation, imitation, variation and recreation, adapts to target readers’ cognitive habits, thereby enhancing communication effects or mitigating semantic negative tendencies. This study provides theoretical basis and practical reference for improving translation quality and international communication effectiveness, and offers practical guidance for constructing a Chinese characteristic foreign discourse system.
Copyright (c) 2026 Qiao Wang, Bingwen Sun http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0