景点介绍性文本的翻译_开题报告

Translating means communicating, and this process depends on what is received by persons hearing or reading a translation. Judging the validity of a translation cannot stop with a comparison of corresponding lexical meaning, grammatical classes, and rhetorical devices（Li Ming: 23）. What is important is the extent to which the receptors understand and appreciate the translated text. According to Eugene Nida: It is essential that functional equivalence be stated primarily in terms of a comparison of the way in which the original receptors correctly understood and appreciated the text and the way in which the receptors of the translated text understand and appreciate the translated text(2001:113).

Owing to the cultural differences between China and western countries, there are many difficulties in the translation process. Many translators are accustomed to translate scenic-spot introductions based on Chinese mindset and ways of expression. As a result, inaccuracies and mistakes can often be seen in the translated texts（Wen Jun: 43）. In today’s China, the translation quality of scenic-spot introductions is far from satisfaction due to countless spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes, and cultural misinterpretations, etc. Therefore, the translation of scenic-spot introductions and the research on it is necessary and urgent.

For scenic spots introductions text translation, at present, the main translation theory has: Transliteration; Free translation; Transliteration plus free translation; Transliteration plus Explanatio.

Transliteration is the practice of converting a text from one script into another, often in a systematic way. It can form an essential part of transcription which converts text from one writing system into another.

Free translation reproduces the matter without the manner, or the content without the form of the original. Usually it is a paraphrase much longer than the original, a so-called “intralingual translation”, often prolix and pretentious, and not translation at  all.

The “transliteration plus free translation” can be expressed as the endocentric phrase of “proper name+type name” from the grammar structure. The “proper name” refers to the name of tourist attraction, and the “type name” refers to the name which is used to judge and differentiate the type of the name of tourist attraction.

“Transliteration plus explanation” means to translate the name of tourist attraction by Pinyin and explain the name with English at the same time. This method could make the foreign tourists understand the literal meaning and the cultural information of the name.

B. 范文提纲

1 Introduction

2 Literature Review

2.1 Great Changes on Studies of Scenic Spots Text Translation from Chinese into English

2.2 The Previous Studies of Culture and Translation

3 The features and function of scenic-spot introduction text

4 Tourist of Hangzhou

4.1 The situation of Hangzhou tourist

4.2 About West Lake

4.3 The problems of scenic-spot translation of West Lake

5 How to translate of scenic-spot introduction text

5.1 Transliteration

5.2 Free translation

5.3 Transliteration plus free translation

6 Conclusion

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