Yi-Chiao Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yi-Chiao Chen is involved.
2025 Examining the impact of footnotes and cultural memory references on empathic evocation through translation: A socio-cognitive exploration of reader reception Babel 72:2, pp. 148–174 | Article
This paper aimed to investigate how footnotes and cultural memory references (CMRs) influence empathic evocation through a questionnaire-based study. To assess the impact, Chinese translations of two English stories by Singaporean writer Alfian Sa’at, namely “Shallow Focus” and “Reunion,” were… read more
2025 Translating affective manifestation: Analyzing tensions in Alfian Sa’at’s Malay Sketches FORUM 23:2, pp. 141–160 | Article
This study explores how affective manifestations are translated and received by studying the intra-ethnic, inter-ethnic, and social/political tensions presented in Alfian Sa’at’s Malay Sketches. The results reveal that Alfian used relevant scenarios and encounters as the prevalent means of… read more
2025 An eco-translatology-based comparison of localization in simplified and traditional Chinese locales: A case study of Hearthstone Digital Translation 12:1, pp. 39–61 | Article
Through an examination of the three dimensions of eco-translatology, this study aims to identify the localization characteristics and differences in Hearthstone between the simplified and traditional Chinese locales, with the intention that the results can serve as guidelines for future… read more
2023 Foreignness as a border-crossing challenge: A Singaporean case FORUM 21:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
Based on the concepts of foreignness delineated by theorists in border studies and cultural translation, this paper analyzes Xi Ni Er’s short stories and identifies two types of translation challenges: the untranslatability of words and the untransferability of feelings. The Singapore-specific… read more
2013 Translation procedures adopted for translating Chinese empty words into English Babel 59:3, pp. 332–359 | Article