Canzhong Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Canzhong Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Canzhong |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4885-9626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The pragmatism of drawing context networks
Linguistics has embraced the functional and contextual turn but, when building tools for systematic contextual description, we have not made as much use as we could of our own functional traditions. Rather, we have largely relied on the metaphors of law and rule, which do not adequately capture tensions between consistency and variability in how language and context relate to each other. Our aim in this paper is to show the economy and practicali…
Epistemic stance in the translations of Chinese medicine classics
This article is a contrastive study of epistemic stance in the English translations of the Chinese medical classic Huang Di Nei Jing by clinicians and non-clinicians. Epistemic stance is concerned with a translator’s certainty about the proposition of a statement and is highly consequential to information validity. By drawing on the systemic functional linguistic framework and using two sets of translations of the Chinese medicine classic, Huang …
Degree of Intensity in English-Chinese Translation
The claim in translation studies that Chinese tends to have a preference for stronger or more exaggerated terms than does English has not been substantiated by any hard linguistic evidence. One system to approach such perceived differences in intensity is degree of intensity (DOI), which is an important device of fine-tuning taken by a speaker to express interpersonal judgments. However, it has not been systematically studied, in quantitative ter…
Attitude as mediation
As explicit expression of attitude is restrained in translations of canonical texts, the peritext often becomes a place for the translator’s attitudinal mediation. Unlike previous studies where the translational peritext is under the name of the translator, this study presents a special case in which the peritext attached to the translation of the Platform Sutra , a religious text, is attributed to the translator’s teacher, whose lectures in the …
Images of the Chinese government projected in its work reports
Coherence in Hong Lou Meng and its English translations
Coherence can be studied from both logical and textual perspectives in systemic functional linguistics. The logical and textual metafunctions together contribute to the coherence of a text. Coherence is realized through clause complexes and cohesive chains at the lexicogrammatical level from the logical and textual meanings. Clause complex reflects the logical development of the text, while cohesive chains are the threads of a coherent text. The …
Recreating the image of Chan master Huineng
The article investigates the roles of MOOD and MODALITY in the recreation of the image of Chan master Huineng in four English translations of The Platform Sutra by Wong Mou-lam, ( Sutra Spoken by the Sixth Patriarch, Wei Lang, on the High Seat of the Gem of Law ( Message from the East ), 1930), Heng Yin, ( The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra , 1977), Thomas Cleary, ( The Sutra of Hui-neng, grand master of Zen: with Hui-neng's commen…
The Unit of Translation
The authors have conducted a study aiming at determining the unit of translation (UT), a subject of debate for more than forty years. The article consists of a review of relevant literature, a redefinition of the UT, an examination of sampled translated texts, excerpts and sentences of over 23,000 pages, including the Bible and Soul Mountain , translated from the Nobel Prize-winning novel of the Chinese author, Gao Xingjian, and an international …
The Unit of Translation
The authors have conducted a study aiming at determining the unit of translation (UT), a subject of debate for more than forty years. The article consists of a review of relevant literature, a redefinition of the UT, an examination of sampled translated texts, excerpts and sentences of over 23,000 pages, including the Bible and Soul Mountain , translated from the Nobel Prize-winning novel of the Chinese author, Gao Xingjian, and an international …
Recreating the image of Chan master Huineng
The article investigates the roles of MOOD and MODALITY in the recreation of the image of Chan master Huineng in four English translations of The Platform Sutra by Wong Mou-lam, ( Sutra Spoken by the Sixth Patriarch, Wei Lang, on the High Seat of the Gem of Law ( Message from the East ), 1930), Heng Yin, ( The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra , 1977), Thomas Cleary, ( The Sutra of Hui-neng, grand master of Zen: with Hui-neng's commen…
Coherence in Hong Lou Meng and its English translations
Coherence can be studied from both logical and textual perspectives in systemic functional linguistics. The logical and textual metafunctions together contribute to the coherence of a text. Coherence is realized through clause complexes and cohesive chains at the lexicogrammatical level from the logical and textual meanings. Clause complex reflects the logical development of the text, while cohesive chains are the threads of a coherent text. The …
Attitude as mediation
As explicit expression of attitude is restrained in translations of canonical texts, the peritext often becomes a place for the translator’s attitudinal mediation. Unlike previous studies where the translational peritext is under the name of the translator, this study presents a special case in which the peritext attached to the translation of the Platform Sutra , a religious text, is attributed to the translator’s teacher, whose lectures in the …
Images of the Chinese government projected in its work reports
Degree of Intensity in English-Chinese Translation
The claim in translation studies that Chinese tends to have a preference for stronger or more exaggerated terms than does English has not been substantiated by any hard linguistic evidence. One system to approach such perceived differences in intensity is degree of intensity (DOI), which is an important device of fine-tuning taken by a speaker to express interpersonal judgments. However, it has not been systematically studied, in quantitative ter…
The pragmatism of drawing context networks
Linguistics has embraced the functional and contextual turn but, when building tools for systematic contextual description, we have not made as much use as we could of our own functional traditions. Rather, we have largely relied on the metaphors of law and rule, which do not adequately capture tensions between consistency and variability in how language and context relate to each other. Our aim in this paper is to show the economy and practicali…
Epistemic stance in the translations of Chinese medicine classics
This article is a contrastive study of epistemic stance in the English translations of the Chinese medical classic Huang Di Nei Jing by clinicians and non-clinicians. Epistemic stance is concerned with a translator’s certainty about the proposition of a statement and is highly consequential to information validity. By drawing on the systemic functional linguistic framework and using two sets of translations of the Chinese medicine classic, Huang …
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works)