This monograph provides a rare sociological analysis of China’s efforts to globalise its academic knowledge through translation and international publication. Centring on the Chinese Outbound Academic Translation Initiative (COATI), a major State-funded programme administered by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, it examines how academic knowledge is translated, negotiated, and institutionally positioned within global knowledge economies. A distinctive contribution of ...

This book examines three metafunction meanings in subtitle translation with three research foci, i.e., the main types of cross-modal interrelation, the primary function of semiotic interplay, and the key linguistic components influencing the subtitles. It goes beyond traditional textual analysis in translation studies; approaches subtitle translation from a multimodality standpoint; and breaks through the linguistic restraints on subtitling research by underscoring the role of semiotic int...