Jianzhong Xu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jianzhong Xu is involved.

Xu, Jianzhong 2026 Review of Fang, Shen & Wang (2025): Pragmatic Translation Studies: Principles, Strategies and Techniques Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts: Online-First Articles | Review

Xu, Jianzhong 2025 Dialogue: Translation activities and human–land relationship Language and Dialogue 15:3, pp. 362–379 | Article

Weigand conceptualizes “language as dialogue” and dialogue as “the mixed game.” Translation can be understood as an interaction between different languages and cultures, encapsulating the essence of this mixed game. This process leads to a novel synthesis: Geo-Translatology, an interdisciplinary… read more

Xu, Jianzhong 2025 A philosophical understanding of translation errors: An examination of subjective and objective mechanisms InContext 5:2, pp. 108–133 | Article

Subjectivity and objectivity constitute fundamental conceptual dualities in philosophical discourse, particularly pertinent to systematic investigations of error generation mechanisms in professional domains. This paper conducts a multidimensional examination of the underlying mechanisms… read more

Xu, Jianzhong 2012 Review of Liu (2009): A General History of Western Translation Theory (in Chinese) Language and Dialogue 2:2, pp. 317–320 | Review

Xu, Jianzhong and Chengxia Chang 2012 Poetic dialogue analysis of Chinese–English poetry translation Language and Dialogue 2:2, pp. 262–282 | Article

The translation of ancient Chinese Poetry into English is considered to be one of the most challenging tasks not only because of the different features between the two languages, especially as they belong to different linguistic families, but also the unique features of the ancient Chinese poetry… read more