Guiguzi, China's First Treatise on Rhetoric: A Critical Translation and Commentary

摘要

As globalization exerts a higher demand on the technical communication profession, technical communication scholars and practitioners have paid significant attention to translation/localization (St. Amant, 2000; Flammia, 2005; Gnecchi, Maylath, Mousten, Scarpa, & Vandepitte, 2011). Flammia (2005), for example, argues that instruction in writing for translation should be integrated into technical communication curriculum. According to her, technical communicators need to be prepared for the challenges of international communication and become skillful intercultural communicators and members of document translation teams. A couple of university programs have facilitated collaborations between students of technical communication and translation studies to develop their cross-cultural sensitivity and their abilities to communicate to an unfamiliar audience (Mousten, Maylath, Vandepitte, & Humbley, 2010; Verzella & Tommaso, 2014). Guiguzi, China's First Treatise on Rhetoric arrives as a timely contribution to complement and support this type of curriculum design.