Research on the Narration of Chinese Culture in CET Translation Questions
Based on the corpus of College English Test(CET)translation questions spanning the years from 2013 to 2022,this paper examines the presentation of Chinese culture in the test texts drawing on the large language model ChatGPT-4o.It is found that there are three distinct cultural types—traditional culture,modern culture,and revolutionary culture,and four narrative strategies—past-present contrast,typical exemplification,grand narration,and overlapping discourses.There is also room for adjustments in terms of the proportion of cultural types presented and potential improvements in the employed narrative strategies.
large language modelGPT-4oCET translationChinese culturenarrative strategies