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.

Transcreation in Advertisement Slogans from the Perspective of Communicative Translation Theory

Through in-depth analysis of advertisement slogans,the present study probes into the unique contribution of trancreation in conveying brand messages and triggering emotional resonance of the audience.The study firstly outlines theoretical basis of transcreation from the perspective of Communicative Translation Theory,emphasizing its uniqueness in the traditional translation paradigm.Then the four key steps of transcreation,including in-depth understanding of the brand essence,sensitive response to cultural differences,flexible use of language skills,and incorporation of creative elements,are examined by means of case analysis in advertisement translation.Finally,the article sums up the positive impact of transcreation on cultural exchange,brand communication and translation field,particularly in the era of globalisation.

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.

On Six Common Strategies of Advertisement Translation

Advertisement is a kind of comprehensive art. Translators of advertisements are expected to have a good command of both English and Chinese so as to Obtain wonderful, accurate, vivid, concise, distinct and appealing advertisements. This paper probes into six common strategies of advertisement translation for the detail study.

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.

A Tentative Study of Chinglish in Translation of Advertisement

Since the policy of reform and opening up began in 1978,the economy of our country has made rapid progress.While applauding the success achieved,we regret to see many problems still exist,among which Chinglish is a prominent one.It has not only hindered the international communication between China and foreign countries,even worse,spoiled Chinese image on the stage of globalization.This thesis chooses the field of advertisement as the topic and attempt to research for the causes and manifestations of Chinglish.At the same time,it is devoted to discussing ways to reduce Chinglish,with a view to bringing translation to a higher standard.

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.

Problems and Strategies in Business Advertisement Translation

With the development of economic globalization, international communication increases rapidly and business advertise-ment plays an important role in the economic development. However, due to different cultures and languages, business translationoften meets some obstacles. This essay tries to talk about the problems in business advertisement translation, analyze the reasonsfor those misinterpretations and bring out some related solutions.

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.

Functionalist Approaches to Advertisement Translation

The 1970s saw a development of the Functionalism, with its three representative scholars Katharina Reiss, Hans. Vermeer and Justa Holz Manttari. Katharina Reiss proposed the text type theory; Vermeer brought up the skopostheory and Mantarri translational action theory. The Functional theories are very useful for the translators to adopt a right translation strategy. In these years, various kinds of adver- tisement have appeared in people's daily life. They are becoming one important part in our culture. The companies need advertisements to sell their products and the consumers need the advertisement to decide which brand to buy after comparison. This paper will discuss how they are applied to the advertisement translation.

Cultural Differences in C-E Translation of Advertisements

As china's reform and opening up and the gradual establishment of market economy, we have been setting up more and more contact with the whole world. However, cultural difference is an obstacle for both sides. In order to communicate more convenient with western countries, translation is a necessary tool. With translation, we can do business more directly with other countries, improving our fame and comprehensive national strength. But if you want foreigners to purchase your products you have to translate your advertisement slogan which can make foreigners understand the advantages of your products. We can find that the slogan of an ad is often composed of only few words. But what it expresses is profound and lasting. When compile slogans, many rhetoric devices are used. Such as simile、repetition、parallelism and exaggeration.

American Culture's Influence on Advertisement Translation of Coca-Cola Company

Through analyzing several typical advertisements of Coca-Cola Company, this essay tries to help translators understand the importance of culture especially American culture’s influence on advertisement translation.

English Advertisement Translation

The English advertisement is a lively and distinctive field. A good translation of an advertisement will not only best convey the original information, but also reflect the characteristic of the product advertised, attract consumers and lead them to produce desire of purchase as well. This paper mainly introduces the language characteristics of English advertisements, the methods of English advertisement translation and the cultural influence on their translation.

Influence of Cultural Differences on Advertisement Translation and Trademark Translation

Advertisement translation and trademark translation are becoming more and more prevailing and influential under the increasing development of internationalization of business. This paper attempts to analyze the influence of cultural differences on advertisement translation and trademark translation. It finds that advertisement translation and trademark translation are under the impressive influence of the differences between Chinese and Western cultures. This paper aims to stress the cultural differences in advertisement translation and trademark translation and reminds translators of the importance of noticing cultural differences and finding a proper point between foreign cultures and native cultures.

Linguistic features and translation of English advertisements

English advertisements have lexical, syntactical and rhetorical features. Knowing them is conducive to the translation of English advertisements. Translators should use Skopostheorie to instruct their practices and adopt various translation techniques to let target consumers know the information of the product after reading the translation and arouse their purchasing desires and impulses to fulfill the function of advertisements.

Dynamic Equivalence Theory and Advertisement Translation

With the fast globalization of the whole world and the intimate international cooperation of enterprises, translation is playing a more and more essential role, espeically in advertisemnts where enterprises want to establish a positive and healthy image in the competitive world market to promote their products and make more profits. Since Nida proposed his famous theory of dynamic equivalence, the English-Chinese advertisemnts translation has no longer been so mechanic and achieved more beauties. The translation of advertisement and trademark tends towards simplicity and visualization in association with the theory of dynamic equivalence, the objective criterion of translation proposed by Nida, emphasizing the inside connotation. Information is transformed during the process by analyzing carefully, distinguishing accurately, and processing flexibly in different situations so that translators can keep the information in high fidelity and gain dynamic equivalence.

A Study on Usage and Translation Strategies of Puns in English Commercial Advertisement

Pun, a concise way of expressing humor and wit, is especially favored by advertisers to enhance the charm of language. Puns have long been regarded as “untranslatable” due to linguistic and cultural differences between two different languages. However, the author of this paper considers the translatability of puns to some extent. Although human may be lost in translation, translators can make various compensations to achieve similar effects in order to achieve the best translation of text. Combined with the analysis of examples, this paper provides a discussion on the classification of puns in English advertising. The author provides various ways to form puns in advertisement and proposes some suggestion for English commercial advertisement translation.

Research on C-E Translation of Commercial Advertisement in Xi’an

To form an excellent bilingual climate in Xi’an, to make the target language more accessible for foreigners to comprehend, the paper takes C-E translation of commercial advertisement in Xi’an as its target, points out current issues from three aspects, analyzes those mistakes in accordance with relevant references, and ultimately raises relatively translation strategies, such as imitation translation, rhetoric translation etc. The paper is also expected to improve the international market for products created or made in China, to upgrade the image and influence of Xi’an in international community, as well as that of China.

The Application of Functional Theory in Advertisement Translation

Functional theory provides a theoretical basis for applied translation. In order to realize the inductive function ofadvertisement translation, this paper, based on the differences between Chinese and English advertisement texts interms of genre conventions, puts forward some methods of advertisement translation from the perspective offunction in view of cultural exclusive items and cultural default. As for the different genre conventions betweenEnglish and Chinese advertisements and the phenomenon of cultural specific and cultural default, the authorsuggests strategies from the functionalist approach.