英汉亲属称谓语的机器翻译调查及存在问题——以cousin为例

A SURVEY OF MACHINE TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE KINSHIP TERMS AND PROBLEMS——TAKING "COUSIN" AS AN EXAMPLE

基于互联网和数据库的机器翻译的优势在于词汇翻译,但是由于亲属称谓语丰富的文化内涵和社会功能,使得机器翻译在翻译亲属称谓语这类词汇时在语义、语用方面都遇到挑战。文章以cousin一词为例,探讨了机器翻译亲属称谓语方面的短板及提升的策略。

The advantage of machine translation, based on Internet and corpus, lies in lexical rendition. However, the rich cultural connotations and social functions of kinship terms have posed great semantic and pragmatic challenges in translating those terms. This paper, taking ＂cousin＂ as an example, discusses the shortcomings of machine translation in rendering kinship terms and offers some relevant strategies.