ABSTRACT This article examines user-generated translation from English into Chinese on Xiaohongshu, a popular yet understudied Chinese social media platform. Using Python, the study collected 24,405 comments from the ten most popular posts which share English source texts for Chinese translation practice. The analysis shows that the English source texts consist mainly of brief philosophical or literary expressions and idioms. Some of the short and seemingly fragmented Chinese translations establish intertextual relationships with both translated and non-translated texts in Chinese and other languages, and between retranslations of the same source texts. This article proposes “transcultural intertextuality” to reconceptualize translation as a transcultural and intertextual space where pre-texts in different languages can be incorporated or transformed to suit new contexts. It also suggests that the materiality of social media platforms influences the construction of intertextual networks, sometimes blurring the boundaries between user-generated and algorithm-triggered connections.

ABSTRACT Translation has traditionally been envisaged as a tool of communication between languages and cultures. This article examines the role of two websites, https://kafila.online/ and https://swatantryavaadini.in/, in bringing visibility to dissident works (fiction and nonfiction) of the early twentieth century of Kerala, through their English translations. In Kerala, the formative years of the literary public were presided over by Patriarchs located at the interfaces of the modernizing state and traditional upper-caste masculine authority. Through their conservative or moderate readings, the cultural gatekeepers concealed the revolutionary potential of many dissident works that actively challenged caste-ridden and patriarchal formulations of the public sphere. The article argues that the website-repository of translations of these works questions the conservative readings, making the project of translation a site of critical intervention.

 Although artificial intelligence/AI/ greatly simplifies the output efficiencies of  non-professional translators, the number of professional translation services throughout the world has increased significantly in recent years. At the same time, translation teachers encounter new challenges in adapting and adopting  running translation courses in new era, selecting new teaching methods  for the sake of efficiencies. 

 This study aims to elucidate the utilization of addition techniques in literary translation and the underlying rationales driving their usage. The research focuses on sentences related to the living environment of the Mongolians and natural state depicted in the books "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford and "Өнөөгийн ертөнцийг үндэслэгч Эзэн Чингис хаан" translated by G. Ganbold. Employing both qualitative and quantitative research methods, the investigation draws upon Rodica Dimitriu's (2004) framework, which advocates for considering linguistic, pragmatic, cultural, and ideological adjustments in translation. The findings of this research highlight that addition techniques are commonly used, particularly in literary translation, in order to accommodate the linguistic and stylistic preferences, as well as cultural disparities of the target language readers.

현대까지 한국과 몽골 양국의 학자들이 지혜와 지식을 다해서 서로의 역사와 정치 사회와 경제 그리고 언어 등 여러 분야의 연구를 해 왔다. 이번 연구에서는 한국어와 몽골어 그 중에서도 한국어의 은유적 표현인 사자성어의 몽골어 번역에 대해 알아보고자 한다. 그동안 몽골과 한국 연구자들은 한국어의 은유적 표현 중에서 속담, 관용어 그리고 숙어에 대한 비교적 대조적인 연구를 많이 했다. 언어의 은유적 표현을 잘 분석하면 할 수록 언어적 가치가 있을 뿐만 아니라 문화적 가치가 있다. 은유적 표현 속에는 그 언어를 쓰는 사람들의 세계관과 문화적 가치가 담겨져 있기 때문이다.

This study investigates the potential for implementation and its impact on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into translation training. It compares traditional and AI-based translation training systems, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages, and will be present the results of the study. Owing to significant advancements in AI, translation technologies have achieved unprecedented levels of precision and optimized efficiency. Traditional translation training has been constrained by its time-consuming nature, high costs of space, and operational expenses. Therefore, a transition to new translation methodologies has become imperative. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) Algorithm: Utilizes encode-decode mechanisms to convert the source text into the target language. This process enhances translation accuracy by processing data while retaining semantic meaning. Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) Algorithm: Processes translations based on statistical models, improving accuracy by selecting the most probable translations. The study's findings reveal that AI-based translation systems are 97% more accurate compared to traditional translation methods. Improvements in students' translation skills were evident from the quality of their translated texts, emphasizing the effectiveness of the new technology. Teachers’ satisfaction with AI-based training averaged 92%, further validating the system's effectiveness in academic settings. This marks the beginning of a new era in enhancing the learning process for translation students.

ABSTRACT Spanish accounts from sixteenth-century colonial New Spain relate that the Aztecs “sacrificed” humans. But did a semantics of “sacrificial” killing actually exist in the Aztec language Nahuatl, or is this notion rather a figment of translation? This question is examined in four steps. First, the article discusses the production of missionary dictionaries and the translation order they represented. Second, it shows how missionaries sought to convert their homegrown semantics of human sacrifice into the foreign language Nahuatl. Third, it examines accounts of Spanish and Aztec mortal violence in the famed missionary Bernardino de Sahagún’s pre-1555 Nahuatl history of the conquest and its Spanish translation from c. 1575–1579. Fourth, it compares a revised translation from 1585. In conclusion, the article displays how missionary translation practices augmented a semantics of “sacrifice” and created a conceptual distinction between Aztec and Spanish mortal violence that is absent in the Nahuatl source language.