On Translation Strategies of Commercial Advertisements From the Perspective of Skopos Theory

In a highly competitive market,excellent advertising translation can better promote brands.By adopting the three principles of Skopos Theory,this paper discusses the E-C translation strategies of commercial advertisements based on specific advertising translation cases,and proposes translation methods of literal translation,free translation,paraphrase,and augmentation,as well as rhetorical methods of homophonic puns,aiming to improve the quality of commercial advertisement translations,enhance the publicity effect,and achieve brand marketing.

Research on the Chinese Translation of Brand Advertisements from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

This study is based on the Skopos theory,using the translation of selected brand advertising slogans as examples.It analyzes the characteristics of advertising slogans and summarizes translation strategies to illustrate the research value of translating advertising slogans into Chinese.This research aims to help domestic consumers accurately understand the meaning of imported product advertisements and provide reference for the translation of domestic brand advertisements,thereby contributing to the development of national enterprises.

Chinese-English Translation of Advertisements

This paper is on the Chinese-English advertisement translation. It gives people an orderly discussion with examples in three parts:the problems in current advertisement translation, the causes of these problems, essential steps of making the Chinese-English translation of advertisement onto an appropriate way. This paper also suggests the principles of Chinese-English advertisement translation:natural, precise and understandable.

Politeness principle in English tourism advertisements

Based on Grice＇s cooperative principle, Brown and Levinson＇s politeness strategy, Leech put forward his politeness principle, which serves as a pragmatic principle in daily interpersonal and business communication. Tourism advertisements, as a means of business communication, have a close relationship with politeness principle. This paper, tram the perspective of the six maxims of politeness principle, analyzes and explores their application to English tourism advertisements and discusses the role of politeness principle in English tourism advertisements.

Understanding advertisements from the perspective of relevance theory

This paper approaches advertisements on the basis of relevant theory. It elaborates how the advertiser as addresser in communication succeed in conveying his intention for publicity and how the recipient as addressee takes advantage of different types of relevant devices in reasoning out the communicative purposes from four different angles, namely, non-stereotypical interpretation of advertisements, psychological requirements of the recipient as addressee in advertisements, advertisements as explicit information and the situational approach to implicit meanings of advertisements. It aims at providing guidance for advertisement planning and translation by means of the exposure of rules underlying advertisements.

Study on C-E Translation of Advertisements Based on Relevance Theory

The main errors in translating Chinese advertisements into English are pragmatic failures in which target-language readers fail to find the optimal relevance between the target text and source text.The translation strategies proposed under the guidance of Relevance Theory can effectively help translators find out optimal relevance in the process of translating Chinese advertisements into English to avoid pragmatic failures.

Schematic Analysis of Linguistic Features of Advertisements

Advertising constitutes an indispensable part of modern life, promoting sales and channeling consumption. Furthermore, the daily conversation is also strongly influenced by advertising language. In this research, schema theory is employed to analyze the graphological, phonological, lexical, grammatical and discoursal features of the advertising language and the cognitive change they bring about among the audience, aiming at helping the consumers have a better understanding of advertisements and helping the designers produce better works.

Pun's Effectiveness and Selectivity in English Advertisements

This paper lays particular emphasis on pun's effectiveness and selectivity in English advertisements.The illustration and examples can help us understand the English advertisements well and foster our ability to appreciate the charm of English.

Translation of Lexical Stylistic Devices from English to Chinese in Commercial Advertisements

With rapid development of China,a growing number of foreign products are entering the Chinese market.An excellent translation of a product’s advertisement from English to Chinese undoubtedly contributes to its successful promotion in the Chinese market.Although the translation practice contains multiple difficulties,the translation of lexical stylistic devices is a big challenge for translators.It is not simply because lexical stylistic devices are diverse and various in form,but also because most devices involve linguistic and cultural differences between English and Chinese.This thesis analyzed a number of current English to Chinese translations of the devices in commercial advertisements,which mainly come from two translation scholars’works and official websites of world-known brands.By analyzing the selected data,seven translation strategies are found to be the major translation strategies in this respect,namely literal translation,free translation,flexible translation,extended translation,adaptation translation,compensation translation and amplification translation strategies.Moreover,a number of linguistic and cultural issues which need to be considered by translators are also illustrated here.

What do We Learn from Advertisements

Our society has been filled with advertisements of all sorts. Advertisers and copy - writers are trying their best to sell their goods to us consumers. How are we tempted and persuaded to buy such things, especially sometimes they are the things we do not really need? Advertisers and copy - writers certainly have their ways. This paper will illustrate how they achieve their purposes by looking at the linguistic features of advertising language.

Linguistic characteristics of English business advertisements targeted on female customers

Advertisement is not only an effective method of promotion, but an elegant act of planning. Successful English advertisements depend on good command and creative application of English words and sentences and smart use of various rhetorical devices. Based on some examples, this paper discusses the linguistic characteristics of English business advertisements targeted on female customers.

A Comparative Analysis on Lexical Features of Language in English and Chinese Commercial Advertisements

This essay studies the words in English and Chinese advertising on the basis of the observation and statistics of words with high frequency in 100 commercial advertisements (50 English advertisements and 50 Chinese advertisements respectively). Based on the theories of lexicology and advertising psychology,such a comparative study is conducted with focus on word classes,namely,nouns,verbs and adjectives semantically. Moreover,the features of words are further analyzed with examples in the hope that English and Chinese advertisements could be understood better in the light of the linguistic meanings and cultural backgound of the advertisements.

A Relevance-Theoretical Analysis of the Persuasive Powerin English Print Advertisements——A Case Study of a Long Advertisement from Reader's Digest

Based on the Relevance Theory established by Sperber & Wilson, this paper sets out to look into the persuasive power in a chosen advertisement and at the same time tries to render plausible explanations of the contextual effects that are inferred by the audience in the communicative process.

On cross-cultural pragmatic failure in English advertisements translated from Chinese

With the rapid development of globalization, more and more factories and companies in China are keen to put their products onto the international market. Advertising translation is the outcome of this economic trend. This paper tries to analyze cross-cultural pragmatic failure in English advertisements translated from Chinese at lexical and textual levels, and puts forward some suggestions on how to avoid cross-cultural pragmatic failure.

Different Cultures Reflected in Chinese and American Advertisements

Nowadays, advertising has become an important part in human life. Advertising is not only a carrier of information,but also an important part of culture. As a kind of cultural phenomenon, advertising has permeated throughout people's social life. In its course of spread, it transmits cultural information and embodies different values. Thus it influences people's thoughts and values unconsciously, leads and changes their behaviors and patterns of consumption.In this essay, I will demonstrate the latent relationship between advertising and culture through analyzing different cultures reflected in Chinese and American advertisements. And this essay offers many solid theories and abundant examples acquired from books and periodicals of various ages.

Genre and Language Feature Analysis of English Print Advertisements

This paper aims to explore the nature of English print advertisements by means of genre analysis and discussion on advertising language features from several pragmatic perspectives.It is suggested that the exquisite advertisement designs,including both rhetorical moves and the special use of language,serve the common communicative purpose of advertisements-promoting the advertised products or service.

Analysis of Interpersonal Metafunction in Tour Advertisements

Interpersonal metafunction is one of the most important functions of language, through which people express their view-points, establish and maintain relations with other people. This paper analyzes the interpersonal metafunction in tour advertise-ments from mood, modality and person system. Through the analysis, this paper reveals how tour advertisements achieve its pur-pose of persuading the potential consumers.

On the Pragmatic Functions of Pun in Advertisements

This paper contributes to discuss what functions puns can fulfill in advertisements. Based on the characters of pun, the author analyzes why pun is an important and effective device and how puns can serve the advertisement successfully. The results and conclusions was drawn by a survey which aims to help the advertisers have a good command of pun in advertisements and help customers understand the deep meaning and figurative effects well.

The Construal of Multi-modal Metaphor in Public Service Advertisements between China and America

Based on the theory of Forceville’s multi-modal metaphor,this paper adopts qualitative and quantitative research methods to analyze 60 social safety ads both in China and America,trying to demonstrate the similarities and differences between the chosen social safety ads in using multi-modal metaphor and discussing the factors that caused these differences.