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《社科汉语研究期刊》Journal of Chinese for Social Science(JCSS)旨在探讨汉语在社会科学研究、教学、出版、跨文化 cross-cultural 学术交流以及转文化 transcultural 知识生产、传播与实践中的应用,关注语言在具体学术语境中的意义建构,并推动学术界重新审视中国社会科学领域已有译本及语言使用实践中概念、术语和意义的演变。
“社科汉语”Chinese for Social Science 是”专门用途汉语”Chinese for Specific Purposes(CSP)的重要分支,与”科技汉语””商务汉语”等共同构成面向专业领域的汉语研究体系。其特点在于关注语言如何参与社会科学的概念建构与知识生产,强调社会科学知识始终植根于特定的语言、历史、文化和思想传统。这一概念源于2006年成立的伦敦经济学院中国比较研究网 China in Comparative Perspective Network(CCPN at LSE),后发展为 CCPN Global,即全球中国学术院 Global China Academy 的前身。自2014年以来,”全球中国对话系列论坛”Global China Dialogue Series Forum 汇聚各国多学科学者与专业人士,围绕中国与全球议题持续对话,为社科汉语的发展积累了丰富的理论与实践基础。
环球世纪出版社 Global Century Press 长期的英汉双语出版实践,为社会科学概念与思想的双向传播搭建了国际平台。然而,脱离具体语境孤立使用译介术语,往往会造成意义偏移,甚至形成带有东方主义色彩的中国表述。因此,本刊特别关注原始概念与译介概念之间的差异,强调在历史、文化和学术语境中理解和运用语言,以促进更准确、更具解释力的跨文化学术交流与转文化知识生产。
不同于传统的双语 bilingual 或双语出版 dual-language publishing 模式,本刊采用《环球世纪出版社双语体例》²编辑出版,本身即是本社”双语融合出版”Integrated Dual-Language Publishing(IDLP)理论的实践案例。在这一理念下,不同语言并非简单对应的文本版本,而是相互补充的知识组织、诠释和传播方式;融合式双语出版不仅是翻译过程,更是转文化知识生产、传播与实践的组成部分。
《社科汉语研究》第1期(2022)奠定了本刊以阅读、写作、翻译和双语信息为基本框架的整体结构,并明确提出“社科汉语”是“专门用途汉语”Chinese for Specific Purposes(CSP)的一个分支,重点关注社会科学中的语言、概念、翻译与跨文化理解。阅读部分以费孝通著作及中日印社会结构比较为重点,通过中级和高级阅读,引导读者从全球与比较视野理解中国社会及相关概念;写作部分为非汉语母语学习者提供园地,收录疫情主题文章;翻译部分集中讨论社会科学英译汉、“跨文化”“超文化”“转文化”等概念的译法及其方法论意义。与此同时,本期已经设置较完整的“双语信息”部分,介绍环球世纪出版社的双语出版体例、排版、标点和中文姓名英文显示规范,形成了此后各期延续的基本模式。
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ISSN 2633-9501 (印刷版)
ISSN 2633-9633 (电子版)
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/jcss.cn
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The Journal of Chinese for Social Science (JCSS) explores the use of Chinese in social science research, teaching and publishing, in cross-cultural academic exchange, and in transcultural knowledge production, dissemination and practice. It examines how meaning is constructed through language in specific academic contexts, and promotes a re-examination of how concepts, terms and meanings have evolved in existing translations and language-use practices in the Chinese social sciences.
Chinese for Social Science is an important branch of Chinese for Specific Purposes (CSP). Together with Chinese for Science and Technology, Business Chinese and related areas, it forms part of a broader research framework for Chinese in professional domains. What distinguishes it is its focus on how language participates in the construction of social science concepts and in knowledge production, and its emphasis that social science knowledge is always rooted in particular linguistic, historical, cultural and intellectual traditions. The concept originated in the China in Comparative Perspective Network at the London School of Economics (CCPN at LSE), founded in 2006, which later became CCPN Global, the predecessor of Global China Academy. Since 2014, the Global China Dialogue Series Forum has brought together scholars from many countries and disciplines, as well as professionals from a range of institutions, in sustained dialogue on China and global issues, laying a rich theoretical and practical foundation for the development of Chinese for Social Science.
Global Century Press’s long-standing practice of English–Chinese bilingual publishing has created an international platform for the two-way circulation of social science concepts and ideas. Yet translated terms used in isolation, detached from their specific contexts, often undergo shifts in meaning and may even give rise to Orientalist representations of China. JCSS therefore pays particular attention to the differences between original concepts and their translated counterparts, and stresses the importance of understanding and using language within its historical, cultural and academic contexts, so as to foster more accurate and analytically more powerful cross-cultural academic exchange and transcultural knowledge production.
Unlike conventional bilingual or dual-language publishing models, JCSS is edited and published in accordance with the Global Century Press Bilingual Style Guide² and itself serves as a practical example of the Press’s theory of Integrated Dual-Language Publishing (IDLP). Under this approach, the two languages are not simply corresponding versions of a text, but complementary ways of organising, interpreting and disseminating knowledge. Integrated dual-language publishing is therefore not merely a process of translation, but an integral part of transcultural knowledge production, dissemination and practice.
The 2022 first volume of the Journal of Chinese for Social Science established the journal’s basic structure of Reading, Writing, Translation and Dual-Language Information, while defining Chinese for Social Science as a branch of Chinese for Specific Purposes (CSP) concerned with language, concepts, translation and cross-cultural understanding in the social sciences. The Reading section focused particularly on Fei Xiaotong and comparative studies of Chinese, Japanese and Indian social structures, using intermediate and advanced reading materials to encourage global and comparative perspectives on Chinese society and related concepts. The Writing section provided a platform for non-native Chinese speakers and included contributions on the COVID-19 pandemic, while the Translation section examined issues in English–Chinese social science translation and debated the meanings and translation of concepts such as cross-cultural, transcultural and “转文化”. The issue also introduced a substantial Dual-Language Information section presenting Global Century Press’s conventions for bilingual publishing, layout, punctuation and the English presentation of Chinese names, thereby establishing a model that continued in later issues.
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ISSN 2633-9501 (Print)
ISSN 2633-9633 (eJournal)
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/jcss.cn
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