Chinese-English Translation of Tourism Text Based on the Conceptual Blending Theory

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10.2991/icadce-17.2017.61How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Conceptual Blending; Tourism Text; Source Space; Target Space; Emergent Space

Abstract

Tourism translation is not only a simple transformation between two languages, but also a cross-cultural communication activity, involving the nature, geography, architecture, history, folk culture and other aspects. This paper aims to apply the Conceptual Blending Theory to analyze the process of Chinese-English translation of tourism text in order to reveal the translator's psychological cognitive model in the translation process. That is to say, the translator first cross-maps the input spaces onto the generic spaces, through composition, completion and elaboration, generates new meanings in the translated text space, which are finally converted into the target linguistic symbols.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Julin Xu
AU  - Xiangying Tu
AU  - Qian He
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - Chinese-English Translation of Tourism Text Based on the Conceptual Blending Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 258
EP  - 263
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icadce-17.2017.61
DO  - 10.2991/icadce-17.2017.61
ID  - Xu2017/05
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