Abstract
With the further deepening of the Chinese opening policy and the rapid economic development, an increasing number of foreign tourists take China as their tourist destinations. In this process, historical scenic sites have played a significant role in the cultural exchanges between China and other countries. Meanwhile, the development of tourism sets higher requirements for the translation of historical tourist texts, as an important means of providing foreigners with tourist information, the C-E (Chinese-English) historical sites translation plays a decisive role in the tourism industry development. More studies should be done on how to improve the quality of the C-E tourist translation.
In this thesis, we will discuss the above topic with four chapters. It is sincerely hoped that this research will contribute to improving the quality of the historical site texts translation.
Keywords: historical sites texts, translation methods, tourist site
Contents
Abstract 1
Contents 2
Introduction 3
1. Chapter 1 English Translation of Historical Sites Texts in China 4
1.1 The Importance of English Translation for Historical Sites Texts 4
1.2 Text Features for Historical Sites Introduction 4
1.2.1 Language Features 4
1.2.2 Cultural Features 5
1.2.3 Stylistic Features 5
1.3 The Errors in English Translation for Historical Sites Texts 6
2. Chapter 2 A Systematic Analysis of Translation Problems 7
2.1 Translation Problems from the Difference in Grammatical Structures 7
2.1.1 The Difference in Syntactic Structure 7
2.1.2 The Difference in Thematic Structure: Theme and Rheme 8
2.1.3 Translation Problems 8
2.2 Translation Problems from the Difference in Genre Expectations 8
2.2.1 The Notion of Genre 8
2.2.2 The Difference in Genre Conventions 9
2.3 Translation Problems from the Difference in Cultural Knowledge 9
2.3.1 Implicit and Explicit Information 9
2.3.2 Translation Problems 10
3. Chapter 3 Proposed Translation Strategies 10
3.1 Strategies on How to Deal with the Difference in Grammatical Structures 10
3.1.1 Addition 10
3.1.2 Hypotaxis 11
3.2 Strategies on How to Deal with the Difference in Genre Expectations 12
3.2.1 Alteration 12
3.2.2 Deletion 13
3.3 How to Deal with the Difference in Cultural Knowledge 13
3.3.1 Addition 14
4. Conclusion 15
5. References 16
6. Acknowledgements 17
