English Translation of Chinese Traditional Cultural Vocabulary Under the Context of Cultural Dissemination

The influence of Chinese culture in English-speaking countries is still not as significant as that of Japan and other East Asian countries.Therefore,it is necessary to explore the English translation of vocabulary with Chinese elements.Based on the main purpose of cultural dissemination,this article briefly classifies vocabulary with Chinese elements,explores translation strategies for Chinese traditional cultural vocabulary,and summarizes the actual cultural propaganda effects.The article also provides insights and suggestions for subsequent strategy applications.

Cultural Vacancy in Chinese-English Translation and Its Compensation Strategies

Attempts are made to explore the relationship between culture and translation, reasons are illustrated for the phenomenonof cultural vacancy and compensation methods for cultural vacancy are demonstrated in Chinese-English translation. Such strate-gies as literal translation, liberal translation, transliteration, annotation and cultural omission are of great guidance to our transla-tion practice.

Intercultural Communication and Chinese-English Translation

Translation is formally a process of language transferring but in essence a process of intercultural communication. Translation serves as a bridge of communication between people from different cultures. Language, culture and communication form the basis of translation. Successful translation requires proficiency in languages and complete understanding two relevant cultures.This paper elaborates on five common cultural obstacles hindering CE translation: cultural differences, cultural conflicts, culturalloaded words or expressions, cultural defaults, and cultural images and then gives corresponding translation solutions.

On Discussion and Balance of Cultural Untranslatability in Chinese-English Translation

In cross-cultural communication,a translator has to study the cultural differences prior to his efficient linguistic transference. As a matter of fact, the cultural differences across nations always create sorts of untranslatable factors.The cultural universals, however, make cultural exchange and linguistic transference possible. A translator, in this sense, shall resort to some balancing point in translating.

Influences of Cultural Differences on Translation of Titles of Films

When translating the titles of films,translators are faced with not only different meanings of Chinese and English language,but also various cultural connotations behind the titles.Therefore,translators should take cultural differences into account in order to make the translated titles close to the connotations of the source culture.Such cultural differences as religious dissimilarities,historical allusions and idiomatic expressions(or idioms)are major concerns when translating film titles.

Translation Strategies of Red Tourism Terms in the Central Plains-Taking Red Central Plains as an Example

In recent years,the Red Tourism in Central Plains has gradually become a new type of thematic tourism form,which is an important carrier to carry out patriotism and revolutionary traditional education and carry forward the national spirit.The translation of red tourism publicity is an important window for spreading Chinese culture,and the translation of professional terms is an important link in the red tourism publicity.How to spread the red culture of the Central Plains,glow the charm of the Central Plains culture,enhance the influence of the Central Plains culture,and spread the Central Plains culture to the world has become the mission of every child of the Central Plains.This paper adopts the case analysis method,combined with the specific and typical cases in“Red Central Plains”,and uses different translation strategies and methods to explore the difficulties and solutions of the translation of terms in the red tourism text.

Cultural Elements in the Translation of Tourist Materials

Although on the surface translation deals with language,it actually deals with cultures due to the special relationship between language and culture.As a result,cultural elements play an important role in the translation of tourist materials.The paper starts with the features of tourist materials and presents three major translation strategies on dealing with different kinds of tourist materials.

The Limits of Cultural Translatability in Yang Xianyi’s Translation of Poems in A DRM

Poems are the products of national culture, and A Dream of Red Mansions (A DRM) is the collection of Chinese culture in the era when the novel was written, so poems in A DRM express a wealth of cultural messages. According to the Limits of Translatability raised by Catford in 1965, cultural untranslatability occurs when a relevant situational feature for the SL text is absent in the TL. So this paper aims to find problems of cultranslation of poems in A DRM, and tries to further restrict cultural untranslatability by applying compensation strategies.

Cultural Identity and Otherness in Literary Translation

Culture and language are close bounded.Cultural similarities provide a basis for translation and cultural exchange.It is widely agreed that cultural differences pose the greatest difficulties in translation.Cultural difference can be categorized into cultural blank and cultural conflict.When translating cultural otherness,different translators employ different translating strategies which are determined by translators' idiosyncrasy,either to preserve or transform cultural images.

Cultural Context and Translation

cultural context plays an important role in translation. Because translation is a cross-culture activity, the culture context that influences translating is consisted of both the culture contexts of source language and target language. This article firstly analyzes the concept of context and cultural context, then according to the procedure of translating classifies cultural context into two stages and talks about how they respectively influence translating.

Cultural Identity and Translator's Style: Case Study of Translation of Tea Relevant Acts in Hong Lou Meng

From the methodological perspective, the thesis summarized leisure tea act, judging-time tea act to map translator's style. Through investigations on all these, the thesis succeeded in confirming the translator's styles and pinpointing cultural identity as essential factors influencing their styles. Hopefully, this could help to provide a new angle of view to make research on translator's style. Moreover, the thesis wishes that with analysis of tea culture in Hong Lou Meng the translation of tea relevant acts receive greater priority in the Chinese Classics Translation.

The Cultural Factors in Chinese Trademark Translation

To some extent, trademarks reflect products’practical value and excellent quality, then, a good product should have a good trademark; now, more and more products are being sold abroad. Thus, a good translated name is very important. However,whether they will gain better benefits from the different countries depends not only on their, but also they should have remarkable names that are the trademarks of the products. However, trademark translation is not only a simple process of language transformation, but it is also a kind of intercultural communicative activities. It is affected by many aspects, such as language, culture,religion consuetudinary, psychological factors, aesthetic characteristics, etc. From the perspective of language and culture, it makes thorough analysis to the English translation of Chinese trademarks; so that it makes the readers peculiarly the person who is interested in translating trademarks have a whole understanding for achieving preferable market effect.

Influences of Cultural Differences on Translation of Titles of Novels

With the fast-pacing of globalization,cross-cultural communications are becoming increasingly frequent. Translation of the literary works,or novels is one of the most popular models of cultural exchange. While the translation of novel titles comes with first importance as successful translation of the titles facilitates a bird's eye view of the whole context. However,the translation of novel titles is no easy without consideration of cultural differences which directly influence people's thoughts and understanding. Therefore,translating novel titles requires an overall analysis of such cultural elements as religion,cultural images,way of thinking,and historical allusions.

Influences of Cultural Differences on Translation of Titles of Laws

For whatever kind of literary forms, the first thing that we come into contact with is the title. The title functions as not only the eye catcher but also the summary of the context. Any legal document starts with its title and a good translation of the title lays the foundation for the interpretation of follow- up terms and conditions. However, translating titles of laws is affected by different factors, especially cultural differences, such as history, diction and conventions. Anyway, cultural impact on translation of law titles can be handled tactfully.

Influences of Cultural Differences on Translation of Titles of Songs

A title is like an eye that reveals its character. A good title of great originality can concentrate on the main points and arouse readers' interests. The title plays a significant part especially in the times of eyeball economy. However, though short as titles are, they always contain a lot of connotations which are quite difficult to translate. Translation is substantially kind of cross-cultural information communication, and translation of song titles is no exception. Due to different origins, Chinese and Western cultures possess their own characteristics in cultural images, ways of thinking, and historical allusions, which should be considered when translating song titles.

The Exploration for Cultural Differences of Chinese and English Public Signs and Their Pragmatic Translation

With China’s accession to WTO,public signs are frequently seen in cities.However,there are lots of pragmatic errors and many improper translation,which we can find everywhere.In addition,this situation exerts serious side effects on our international image in foreign exchange.In order to regulate translation and application of public signs and even with an aim to bring about the realization of globalization,this paper discusses and analyzes some translating strategies and principles from the perspective of cultural differences and pragmatics.

A Pragmatic Approach to Idiom Translation from a Cultural Perspective

Idioms are gems of a language which have been refined through ages of use. Idioms are thus always rich in cultural connotation and national flavor. Lots of cultural information is embedded in idioms. Language is a part of culture. Language is the important carrier of culture. Language and culture have close relationship with each other. The study of the relationship between language and culture has been considered a subject of great value. Owing to this, translation theorists and translators have put more attention to the cultural barriers that exist in translation. Therefore, translators have to better understand the relationship between language and culture and the relationship between culture and translation so as to render idioms from the SL into the TL faithfully and effectively.

Translation Strategy of Metaphorical Phrases from the Cultural Perspective

Translators frequently come across metaphors and similes, which are important ways of figure of speech. Figures of speech are actually vehicles of culture, and metaphorical phrases are the essence of human's culture. So the strategies adopted in the translation of metaphors and similes are the reflection of the translators' attitude towards culture. This paper holds the belief that foreignization should be the main translation strategy when dealing with the metaphorical phrases bearing cultural connotations.