Haijin Li

Controlling Translation Purpose through Prompt Engineering: A Skopos-Based Study of AI Poetry Translation

The study finds that each prompt orientation produces distinct and observable shifts in diction, imagery construction and formal expression, and re-conceptualizes prompts not only as technical input instructions, but as purposive regulators of translation, offering a translation-theoretic framework for analysing LLM behaviour and practical guidance for designing Skopos-informed prompts for AI-assisted literary translation.