Translation Research Center

I. Introduction:

The Translation Research Center is aimed at promoting the academic research, discipline construction and talent cultivation of translation, at gathering the resources of both talents and facilities to carry out researches in the areas of translation studies, teaching and practice, especially in corpus-based translation research. Measures will be taken to reinforce the administration of the Center, apply for more scientific and teaching projects at the state and provincial or ministerial levels, perfect the working mechanism, promote the teaching reform and international cooperation, constantly enlarge our influence in the discipline of translation research, and, last but not the least, get prepared for the application for the MTI program.

II. Director:

Prof. Ren Xiaofei, PhD.

III. Projects and Publications:

1. Corpus-based translation research

Major projects:

1. Constructing Corpus Stylistics Methodological System in Translation Studies, The National Social Sciences Fund (10BYY007), RMB 120,000, 2010-2013
   

2. Constructing Systemic Framework of Corpus-based Dramatic Stylistics in Drama Translation Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Chinese Ministry of Education (09YJA740055), 70,000, 2009-2013
   

3.  Internationalization of English Curriculum—Constructing Corpus-based EAP Teaching System, Jiangsu Educational Science Fund for 12th Five-year Plan (Key Project) (B-b/2013/01/023), 2013-2015
   

4. Lead-based E-learning System for Postgraduate English, Jiangsu Educational Science Fund for 11th Five-year Plan (D/2006/01/164), 2006-2009
   

5. Drama Translation: Studies from the Perspective of Dramatic Stylistics--Corpus-based Ying Ruocheng’s Theatrical Translation, Philosophical and Social Sciences Fund of Jiangsu Higher Education (09JDB740006), 2009-2011
   

6. Cultural Turn in Hierarchical Equivalence—A Corpus-based Exploration into the Translation of Chinese Philosophical Works, Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund of Jiangsu Institutions of Higher

Learning (06SJD740011), 2006-2008Monographs:

• Introducing Corpus Stylistics into Drama Translation Studies, China’s Social Sciences Press, 2014/11

• A Translator on the Stage--A Systemic Study on Ying Ruocheng’s Drama Translation, China’s Social Sciences Press, 2008

Major papers:

1. Introducing Corpus Stylistics into Drama Translation Studies—a Case Study of the Deictic System in Drama Translation, Foreign Language Teaching Theory and Practice, 2014/2
   

2. On the “Fitness for Oral Presentation”—a Corpus-based Study on Ying Roucheng’s Translation of Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, 2011/4
   

3.  A Translator on the Target Theatre— Ying Ruocheng’s Theatre Translation, Babel, 2010/4。
   

4. Turn-taking Management and Dramatic Dialogue Translation---a case study of dramatic stylistics, Foreign Languages Teaching Theory and Practice, 2010/1
   

5. Translation and Reception of Systems Philosophy in China, Proceedings of the 18th International Translation Conference, 2008/8
   

6. Performatives in Ying Ruocheng’s Translation of Teahouse，Translation Journal，2008/2.
   

7. On Formal Correspondence in Chinese-English Translation from the Perspectives of Hypotaxis and Parataxis, China’s Translator Journal, 2002/3
   

8. On the Recreational Adaptation in the E-C Translation of Film Subtitles—a case study of Protecting the Earth from the Scum of the Universe 3 and Madagascar 3, China’s Translator Journal, 2013/3
   

9. Revelations of the British Curriculum for Cultivating the Postgraduates’ Research Ability, Higher Education Management, 2013/1。

2. Translation Publications (Translation of Children’s Literature, Practical Translation, etc.)

Mother Goose, Crimson Fairy Book, Tarzan, Rebecca of Sunny Creek Farm, The Little Prince, Ozma of Oz, Wild Animals I Have Known, The Chronicles of Narnia, Driven from Home, Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, Tales from Shakespeare, Brown Fairy Book, Thrift, The Realization of Life, Self-help, The Phoenix and Magic Carpet, Modern Painters (Vol. 1-5), etc.

IV. Academic Exchanges:

The Translation Center at Jiangsu University has established good relations with distinguished scholars from Shanghai Foreign Studies University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sun Yatsen University, etc., including Feng Qinghua, Wang Kefei, Huang Guowen, et al and carried out academic exchanges with City University of Hong Kong, Manchester University, Lancaster University, etc