Bibliographic record
Abstract
As the core of Bourdieu’s sociological notions, habitus is initiative, generative and accumulative, constantly restructuring itself in accordance with external changes. The notion is frequently used to explain human action. Within the context of Translation Studies, the translator’s habitus can be an analytical tool to analyze a translator’s translation practice and to determine the hidden factors influencing translation behaviors. Lin Yutang is a well-known Chinese translator, and numerous studies have been carried out focusing on him as a translator and his translations from various perspectives. This study attempts to complement these previous studies by employing the concept of habitus. In other words, this study tries to investigate Lin Yutang’s translation habitus in order to more comprehensively understand him as a translator and further understand the restructuring characteristics of habitus. Within the framework of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Practice, this paper diachronically examines Lin Yutang’s translation habitus through a comparison of his two translations of Six Chapters of a Floating Life which were translated in different times. The findings show that with the change of literary fields and the increase of his symbolic capital, Lin Yutang adjusted his translation habitus accordingly by turning from an “academic translation model” to a “business translation model”, and from adopting a foreignizing strategy to a domesticating strategy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".