Study on the Textual Coherence Function of Conjunctions in Political Texts and Their Translation Reconstruction

The assessment of translation quality in political texts is primarily based on achieving effective communication.Throughout the translation process,it is essential to not only accurately convey the original content but also effectively transform the structural mechanisms of the source language.In the translation reconstruction of political texts,various textual cohesion methods are often employed,with conjunctions serving as a primary means for semantic coherence within text units.

Research on Translation Strategies of Political Texts for International Publicity from the Perspective of Eco-Translatology

Eco-translatology provides a new perspective and methodology for the international publicity translation of political texts.This paper applies the viewpoint and methodology of eco-translatology,focuses on the three-dimensional transformation of language,culture,and communication,and discusses how translators can adapt to the eco-environment of political texts through the specific example of the keynote speech of China’s president at the opening ceremony of the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and select suitable translation strategies and techniques to achieve an ecological balance of the target text in multiple dimensions.

The Translation of Chinese Literature under the Theory of Translation Compensation

In order to promote the exchange of Chinese culture with foreign countries,translators bear an important mission in the process of cross-cultural communication.Although there are cultural differences,we can achieve cultural dissemination and exchange through continuous cultural dialogue.As an important way for foreign scholars to understand the history of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China,the translation of historical texts is crucial.Multiple typical cases are selected under the guidance of the translation theory of compensation to use relevant methods or techniques from the three levels of language,culture,and aesthetics to compensate for the loss of Li Xueqin’s The Origin of Ancient Chinese Civilization in English translation proofreading.

Short-Term Memory Capacity across Time and Language Estimated from Ancient and Modern Literary Texts. Study-Case: New Testament Translations

We study the short-term memory capacity of ancient readers of the original New Testament written in Greek, of its translations to Latin and to modern languages. To model it, we consider the number of words between any two contiguous interpunctions Ip, because this parameter can model how the human mind memorizes “chunks” of information. Since IP can be calculated for any alphabetical text, we can perform experiments—otherwise impossible— with ancient readers by studying the literary works they used to read. The “experiments” compare the IP of texts of a language/translation to those of another language/translation by measuring the minimum average probability of finding joint readers (those who can read both texts because of similar short-term memory capacity) and by defining an “overlap index”. We also define the population of universal readers, people who can read any New Testament text in any language. Future work is vast, with many research tracks, because alphabetical literatures are very large and allow many experiments, such as comparing authors, translations or even texts written by artificial intelligence tools.

Translation Strategies of C-E Business Contract From the Perspective of Functionalist Text Typology Theory

According to the functionalist text typology theory,there is no single absolute translation strategy,which can guide all translation activities.The core ofthe functionalist text typology theory in translation studies is that different types of texts require different translation strategies.This paper intends tobring for ward three translation strategies on C-E business contract translation from the perspective of functionalist text typology theory.

Translation Strategies of Instructional Text--Taking Murder Your Darlings and Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser as an Example

With the popularity of English learning in the world,the demand for instructional materials is increasing,and how to accurately convey the information of these texts to English-learners and provide the learners with an effective learning experience has become a major problem.Therefore,the role of the translator is crucial.It is found that that translators should make linguistic choices based on the text functions and target readers’expectations,and flexibly adopt the translation strategies,such as addition,conversion,and cohesion to convey the intention of the source author and generate the source context accurately and appropriately.Applying relevant theories to the analysis of translation cases,the paper tentatively puts forward solutions to the problems encountered in the E-C translation of chapter one of Murder Your Darlings and Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser.Hopefully,it could provide a reference for other translators working on instructional texts.

A Brief Discussion on Translation of Tourism Texts from Perspective of Translation Aesthetics

This thesis firstly points out that the translation of tourism texts undertakes the historical mission of intercultural commu-nication. Especially, tourism is now undergoing an age when people around the world spend much of their time and money knowing more about the characteristics of different cultures. However, when it comes to the translation of tourism texts, the collision between different cultures inevitably leads to many worrying problems, such as ambiguous and rigid translation, which should be taken into consideration. Consequently, this thesis aims to find out some effective solutions to the current problems existing in translation of tourism texts from the perspective of translation aesthetics, which is a way of the integration of translation and aesthetics. Due to the sophisticated coverage of translation aesthetics and the limitation of the paper's size, this thesis lays an emphasis on exploring the beauty in culture, beauty in simplicity, beauty in form and beauty in image in the process of tourism texts translation. The author hopes that this study can help translators create high-quality tourism texts translation to better serve the development of tourism in our country.

Tourism Texts Translation of Chichen Itza from the Perspective of Tourism Text Function

With the gradual expansion of China's influence,the translation of tourism texts has become one of the important media for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.This paper adopts the translation strategies of the foreignization and domestication,studies from the perspective of the function of the tourism text,and analyzes the proper nouns,Chinese four-character words,and sentence expressions in translation practice at the vocabulary and syntactic levels.Following the vocative function and information function contained in the tourism text,this paper elaborates on the purpose of attracting tourists and promoting the communication between Chinese and Western cultures.

On the Translation of Tourism Texts from the Perspective of Relevance Theory——Taking Luoyang Tourism Texts as an Example

With the relevance theory as a guideline and Luoyang's tourism texts as an example, this paper uses the method of exemplification and comparison, aims to explore English translation problems of Luoyang's tourism texts, and puts forward practical translation strategies respectively, thus helping to solve the problems in the English translation of tourism texts and promoting Chinese influence in the international context.

A Functionalist Approach to the Translation of Allusions in Chinese Tourism Texts

Allusions are very common in Chinese tourism texts. When translating them, translators should make the translated version both understandable and acceptable. With Nord's documentary translation and instrumental translation, this paper explores how to apply these two translation processes to the translation of allusions in Chinese tourism texts.

Literary Text Translation from Functional Perspective

Functional linguistics has become the most influential linguistic theory in the field of translation study since the last de cade of 20th century.However,for the complexity of the context,it is uncommon and insufficient to explore literary texts.Draw ing a general picture of literary text translation from functional perspectives aims to probe into the functional modes of translation.

The Probe of Significance of Text Analysis in Translation

This paper studies the significance of text analysis in translation in regard to the analysis both inside and outside the "text",discussing the weight of analyzing lexical units and stylistic scales in translation and examining the importance of analyzing the translator’s intention,the author’s intention and the target language(TL)readership.

Cultural Effects in Translation——From A Text Linguistic Approach

This paper discusses the cultural effect in translation by exploring the text linguistic approach; especially it 's seven standards. This includes an analysis of the different texts of the language and culture. There is a closet link between these standards and the cultural effect in translation. The paper also offers some simple examples to illusrate some standards of them. In addition, the paper is trying to emphasis the importance between the translation theories and the cultural effect in the process of translation.

Using Technologies for Creative-text Translation,edited by James Luke Hadley,Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov,Carlos S.C.Teixeira and Antonio Toral,New York,Routledge,2022,219 pp.,ISBN:9780367555818

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic,creative-text translation is less impacted by uncertainty than interpretation.Research on the effectiveness and viability of incorporating artificial intelligence into the translation of creative works that capture human aesthetic value is still in its infancy.The book Using Technologies for Creative-text Translation goes deep into this emerging field,covering significant findings of machine translation in creative text from the prevailing perspectives on the application of machine translation to the efficiency of machine-to-translation rhetoric.This review describes the background of the work,sorts out its logical relationships,identifies the research findings,and summarises the ingenious ideas.In summary,the book takes into account the perspectives of multiple disciplines,which helps scholars,translators and practitioners understand the application of machine translation in creative texts.

An Empirical Study on the Differences between Overt Translation and Covert Translation in Legal

Currently,it is key to convey precise meanings to readers for translators.Observing expressing habits between different languages is the precondition to make target texts more readable.It is crucial to ensure the exactness and seriousness of legal texts,but it does not mean that translators have to take machined way to leave out and even give up transmitting in-deep cultural implications for the intention of achieving the all-inclusive integrity of target content.It is a correct choice for translators to take overt translation and covert translation in line with traits of source language and target language and differences between civil law system and common law system.The intention of the article is to make an empirical study between overt translation and covert translation.

A Study on C-E Translation of Product Introductory Texts on Company Websites Under Skopos Theory

This paper takes the C-E translation of product introductory texts on official websites of three mobile phone makers as the study object under the Skopos theory, with an aim to identify and analyze the distinctive translation features of such special type of text. The exhausted parse and analysis bring out the findings that there exists a significant translation difference between the Chinese and English-version product introductory texts on official websites. It is found that Chinese introductory texts are more inclined to rely on exquisite words and redundant expressions to describe products’ features and functions, while switching to the corresponding English version, simple vocabularies and compact sentence structure are more frequent. Hereafter, this paper raises two practical guidelines to instruct translation activities in business contexts.

Appreciating literary translations as afterlives of the original work

In literary translation, the original was rewritten and transformed, resulting in the rebirth of the original work--the afterlives. Afterlives are embodied in the re-creation of national literature in other countries. With the translation of western novels at the e, nd of 19th century and the beginning of 20^th century in China, the themes in original novels were re-interpreted and re-invented in Chinese context. Moreover, modern aesthetic mode and value became popular, and ancient Chinese language was renovated into modern style. Afterlives can also be seen in the re-translation that is conducted with different interpretation in the same historical period as well as the re-translation that is performed not from the original language in different historical periods. Literary translators play instrumental role as active agents in the delivery of afterlives, extending and growing the original.

Coherence through theme equivalence： With reference to text translation

Theme is the point of departure of a message, and it is a textual phenomenon. It can interpret the comprehension and production of texts. This paper first makes a thematic analysis of the English original text and the Chinese target text, and then makes a comparative study of them in terms of the textual properties. It is found that in reproduction of target text, theme equivalence can not only help to realize the coherence of the target text with the same effect on receptors but also can save translation efforts. It is unnecessary to change the theme-rheme arrangements of the original unless it is required due to the social and cultural differences between English and Chinese.

Court Sight Translation From Text-Linguistic Approach

Court interpreting as a type of dialogue or liaison interpreting has recently drawn an increasing level of attention in a variety of disciplines, including legal science, applied linguistics, and translation studies. Amongst discussions relevant to court interpreting, the area of sight translation has yet to be emphasized, despite its importance to the outcome of a trial. In this study I first had observations of court interpreting activities on several occasions. Based on these observations, I then formulated a questionnaire and distributed it to 86 interpreters in two training workshops organized by the Taiwan High Court in 2013. The key findings are as follows： most interpreters consider sight translation to be more difficult than other forms of interpretation in the courtroom; while conducting sight translation many interpreters pause in order to seek clarification or are interrupted; most interpreters would prefer the judge or the prosecutor to orally summarize the text to be sight translated; and, after ＂negotiation,＂ most practitioners tend to lower the level of formality when dealing with a text written in a formal style. These findings imply that interpreters conducting sight translation render a translation through ＂negotiation＂ with other participants of the activity; this negotiation can be seen as an attempt to build a ＂context＂ from the perspective of liaison interpreting. This study intends to raise the awareness of court interpreters regarding a number of key issues in sight translation, and the results are hoped to be conducive to the future study of other types of liaison interpreting and interpreting as a whole.

Notes on the Semantic Clash Caused by Individual Background, a Survey on Translation Materials in Qing Dynasty

Influenced by translator＇s individual background, semantic clash is inevitable during the process of code-switching from source language to target language. This re-correspondence in semantic level has been well-shown not only in the translation of literature works, but in those of dictionary and glossary translations as well. Semantic clash, generally, is based on two main factors, one is the inherent difference between languages lying in typology features, the other is the social and culture diversity factors lying in the translator＇s personal background. According to actual translation works, social and culture factors of individual background take the dominant position unconsciously over other features in the process of code-switching. The present paper, branches the latter factor into certain categories, by analyzing bilingual dictionaries and glossaries cases in the 18th century, Qing Dynasty, and indicates that the conceptual lagging, religion beliefs, living environment and political stand embedded in individual background will somehow result in semantic clash, which will lead the relevant research to pay more attention on cross-cultural literature translation.