someproblemsinEnglishranslaionofXiamenScenicspos_开题报告

Xiamen is a well-known tourist city in China, every year there are a lot of foreign tourists coming to Xiamen, tour the island and sea, to understand local customs. Especially more and more foreigners would like to have a trip in China. Therefore, the community of our translation and foreign-related tourist information guides request higher demand to adapt to the increased international tourists. The translation of tourist attractions and cultural presentation play a very important role in the tour. The translation between Chinese and English is necessary for most of foreign visitors who don’t have Chinese cultural background. However, during our tour, there still has some problems which causes a lot of misunderstanding to foreign visitors and influences the spread of China culture.

Tourism is a typical cross-cultural communication activity. With the development of international tourist trade, there are too many materials regarding scenic spots need to be translated into English. Among the existing versions, there are many problems need us to improvement. Most of the translators don’t have a cross-cultural awareness, so they frequently let visitors feel confused. Because traveling is cross-culture activity, translation of texts at scenic spots requires the translators should deal it from a cross-cultural perspective, thus makes it more difficult .It not only acquires translators to have keep knowledge of literary language, but also know every well both cultures.

As tour guide is job of face-to-face intercultural communication between guide-interpreters and tourists. It possesses its unique features, which is different from other forms of interpretation. The guide interpretation aims at facilitating foreign tourists’ understanding of China culture by means of guides’ oral presentation. Based upon this purpose, the translator need to fully aware of the comprehensive characteristics (informative, expressive and operative) of guides’ commentaries and strictly observe the corresponding translation brief and pay attention to the response of tourists.

This thesis select Xiamen scenic spots as an example to collect and analysis the existing problems of guides’ interpretation at scenic spots. Try to find methods and improve the quality of guides’ commentaries based on the cross-cultural from several aspects: time and dynasty, name translation, 

Introduction 

overview of tourism

The roles and necessary of scenic spots translation

The aim of Guides interpretation

2.1 The features of guides’ interpretation

2.2 The requirement of guides’ interpretation

3.  The existing problems in scenic spots translation, Xiamen scenic spots as an example.

3.1 cross-cultural difference in tourists

3.2 the expression difference of language

4.  The theory and methods of improvement

4.1 The adaption of guides’ commentaries

4.2 The observation of tourists

5 Conclusion: Guides’ interpretation has it’s unique features, to improve the translation based on the theory and response of tourists from several aspects, which will help tourists understand china more easily.

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