scholarly journals A Study of Cultural Context in Chinese-English Translation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Xiang'e Zhang
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Communication Activity

The cultural translation view considers translation as a cross-cultural communication activity. The paradigm and thinking of translation will also have profound changes in different cultural contexts. It can be seen from modern translation studies that the translation circle has paid full attention to the cultural differences between the two languages, and due to the profound influence of culture, translators have gradually formed their own unique and personalized cultural understanding and translation concepts in translation practice. Starting from the influence of cultural context on Chinese-English translation, this article explores the cultural context in Chinese-English translation combined with practical work experience, and the understanding and practice of translation activities under the cultural translation perspective.

Translating anglophobia

Target ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-251
Author(s):  
Tong King Lee
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
First Case ◽  
Cultural Anxiety ◽  
English Translations

This article examines problems arising from biliterate performances in English and Chinese in the context of the sociolinguistics of Singapore. The questions asked include: What are the ramifications of translating Chinese literature carrying anglophobic themes into English? How might translation displace anglophobic readings from Chinese literary works? What kind of identity discourse do self-translation practices engender? The article examines three cases of cross-linguistic practice as biliterate modalities in Singapore, with an eye on the identity discourse emanating from the translational space between English and Chinese in each case. In the first case, it is argued that the English translation of a Chinese poem with an anglophobic stance triggers an ironic self-reflexivity on the part of the target text reader and has the potential to exacerbate the cultural anxiety faced by the Chinese-speaking Self in the source text. The second case presents an example where the anglophobic interpretation of a Chinese play can potentially be ‘unread’ through the homogenization of code-switching through translation. In the final case of a self-translating playwright, it is found that English-Chinese and Chinese-English translations establish an asymmetric symbiosis whereby translation creates an interliminal space in which a hybrid identity discourse is negotiated. The three cases illustrate the tensions and paradoxes residing in the translational space between English and Chinese in Singapore, pointing to the problematic of interand cross-cultural communication in the multilingual state.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Goldblatt's English Translation of Mo Yan's “The Republic of Wine”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 728-733
Author(s):  
Hui Guo
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Republic

This article compares the original work of "The Republic of Wine" with Howard Goldblatt’s translation, and finds that Mr. Goldblatt strives to find a balance between fidelity and betrayal, and adopts more methods of transliteration and literal translation, which makes translation into a cross-cultural communication. Also, this article focuses on exploring the translator’s handling of culturally loaded words in the original work, and also provides new ideas and inspiration for Chinese-English translators. At the same time, “The Republic of Wine” is all-encompassing and contains a lot of metaphors; this paper analyzes the metaphor translation strategies in its English translation in order to provide some reference points for metaphor translation.

Problems in cross-cultural communication

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. K. Eric Gunderson ◽  
Lorand B. Szalay ◽  
Prescott Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication

MODERNISM AND THE PROBLEM OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Irina Stanislavova ◽  
Galina Solovyova
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Functional Integrity

The article is devoted to the study of issues related to the problem of “intercultural com-munication”.The complexity and relevance of this problem for the modern stage of cultur-al development is shown. Modernism is seen as an element of erosion of the functional integrity and balance of the dominant cultural system. Based on this research, a number of conclusions are made.

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