On the Translation of Lexical Items with Chinese Characteristics in The Economist Based on Lefevere’s Rewriting Theory

DOI

10.2991/iserss-19.2019.135How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Translation, Rewriting Theory, Lexical Items with Chinese Characteristics, The Economist

Abstract

The Economist, as a quite influential newspaper in the western society, began to set up China column in 2012 and has made quite a lot of reports concerning different aspects of China and therefore used many expressions with Chinese characteristics. This paper cited the editorials in the China column as the subjects, trying to analyze why and how the translation of lexical items with Chinese characteristics are rewritten in guidance of the three factors of Lefevere’s rewriting theory (ideology, poetics and patronage) and evaluate the rewritten translation to summarize some applicable suggestions to improve domestic translation in this field. This thesis finds that most translations of lexical items with Chinese characteristics in The Economist achieve semantic faithfulness but always carry derogatory hints due to discrepancy in ideology, from which Chinese translators may draw a lesson and avoid similar mistakes.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Yufu Wang
AU  - Kui Zhu
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - On the Translation of Lexical Items with Chinese Characteristics in The Economist Based on Lefevere’s Rewriting Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 329
EP  - 333
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iserss-19.2019.135
DO  - 10.2991/iserss-19.2019.135
ID  - Wang2019/06
ER  -