Global Language and Cultural Studies

English Translation of Ancient Chinese Scientific Classics in the AIPE Era: Efficacy, Boundaries, and Pathways —An Empirical Study Based on the Translation Review of Mengxi Bitan

2026-03-04T12:49:07+08:00

Current research on Artificial Intelligence Post-Editing (AIPE) remains largely theoretical, lacking sufficient empirical, case-specific, and quantitative analysis. This study investigates the efficacy, boundaries, and developmental pathways of AIPE in translating ancient Chinese scientific classics, using the English translation of Mengxi Bitan (Brush Talks from Dream Brook) by Shen Kuo (1031-1095) as a case study and integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings reveal that, despite multiple rounds of prompt engineering and Few-Shot Learning (FSL) training, AI continues to exhibit significant limitations: it is prone to factual and contextual hallucinations, lacks empathetic perception, and struggles to capture the emotional and cultural nuances of the source text or adapt to target readers’ cognitive gaps. The study concludes that AI currently serves only as an auxiliary tool and is not yet capable of functioning independently as a translation reviewer in the short term. This research aims to fill the empirical gap in AIPE-assisted translation of scientific classics, underscores the necessity of building a human-AI collaborative model, and proposes strategies for enhancing the competence of human reviewers and optimizing AI performance to achieve synchronous improvements in both translation efficiency and quality.

Exploration of the Impact of New Media Interactive Language on College Students' Interpersonal Communication Psychology and Guidance Pathways in the Network Era

2026-03-04T12:49:08+08:00

In the era of networkization, new media interactive language has rapidly developed relying on digital platforms, exhibiting distinct characteristics such as simplification, jocularity, multimodality, compartmentalization, and immediacy. It systematically influences college students' interpersonal communication psychology through triple mechanisms of cognition, emotion, and behavior. New media interactive language plays a positive role in lowering social barriers for college students, alleviating communication anxiety, expanding social circles, satisfying belonging needs, enriching emotional expression, and enhancing communication efficiency. However, it also triggers a series of negative issues, including language skill degradation, real-world social alienation, superficial thinking, lack of deep interaction, cognitive biases in communication, and communication barriers. Based on this, this study proposes targeted guidance pathways and strategies from three dimensions: higher education, college students' self-adjustment, and optimization of social culture and online environment. The aim is to assist college students in constructing healthy interpersonal communication psychology and social patterns, and to promote the positive development of the new media language ecosystem.

Smart Teaching Platform Empowering Energy and Power English Reading, Writing and Translation: An Innovative Pathway for Translation Competence Development

2026-03-04T12:49:09+08:00

To address the challenges of outdated resources, monotonous teaching methods, and insufficient personalized support in the traditional teaching of Energy and Power English reading, writing, and translation, and to meet the industry’s demand for compound translation talents, this study adopts the Chaoxing Learning Platform as the practice platform to explore application paths and effects of smart teaching platforms. Using a “literature research – case analysis – empirical verification” approach, it constructs a hybrid teaching model of “platform empowerment – task-driven – scenario simulation,” designs three application scenarios—classroom teaching, after-class autonomous learning, and practical projects—and establishes a diversified evaluation system combining “quantitative + qualitative” and “process + result.” Empirical results show that, compared with traditional teaching, the platform significantly improves students’ translation competence: the accuracy rate of professional terms increases from 58% to 89%, and the semantic deviation rate decreases from 32% to 12%. At the same time, it optimizes learning efficiency and experience. This study provides practical support for the intelligent reform of ESP translation teaching and for cultivating internationally oriented talents in the energy and power sector.

Translator’s Style in Different English Versions of Shiji : A Corpus-based Comparative Study

2026-03-04T12:49:10+08:00

This study employs a corpus-based methodology to explore the stylistic differences among three prominent English translations of Shiji by Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang, Burton Watson, and William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Focusing on lexical, syntactic, and textual dimensions, the research investigates core indicators such as lexical diversity, lexical density, sentence structure, cohesive devices, and overall readability to identify their distinct translator styles. The findings reveal that each translator’s stylistic choices are closely aligned with their respective translation orientations and target audiences. Yang’s version prioritizes fidelity to the source text; Watson’s translation emphasizes narrative flow and accessibility for general Western readers; Nienhauser’s rendition optimizes academic clarity and readability.

The Correlation Between the Linguistic Features of Social Media in New Media and Psychological Anxiety Among College Students: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Context of Networked Communication

2026-03-04T12:49:10+08:00

To explore the correlation between the linguistic features of social media in new media and psychological anxiety among college students within the context of networked communication, this study surveyed college students from various academic tiers nationwide using a questionnaire. The survey employed scales to measure three key linguistic features of social media in new media—symbolic fragmentation, emotional polarization and catharsis, and performative persona-based stratification (independent variables)—as well as psychological anxiety among college students (dependent variable), mediating variables such as cognitive dissonance, and moderating variables such as the duration of new media use. Empirical research was conducted using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and interaction effect analysis.