Regional Diversities and Movie Title Translation

DOI

10.2991/saeme-17.2017.65How to use a DOI?

Keywords

movie title, translation, regional diversities

Abstract

This paper analyzes the reasons resulting in the disunity of the movie title translations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland from the angle of culture. It points out that the reasons lie in three aspects: ideological differences, linguistic differences and different translation purposes. Firstly, this paper expresses the present researches on movie title translation, and finds out the area which can be further studied. Secondly, this paper respectively proves that the differences in ideology, linguistic habits and translation purposes cause the disunity of the movie title translations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland under the guide of the theory of culture, by comparing the different cultural backgrounds in these regions with plenty of the translation examples. The last part concludes the discussion along with the confession of the weaknesses involved in this research.

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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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AU  - Liu Qi
PY  - 2017/07
DA  - 2017/07
TI  - Regional Diversities and Movie Title Translation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Sports, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (SAEME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 289
EP  - 294
SN  - 2352-5398
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