On the C-E Translation of Culture-Specific Expressions from the Perspective of Eco-Translatology: A Case Study of English Translation of Report on the Work of Nanchang Municipal Government

Zhihui Yang

doi:10.30560/ilr.v8n3p1

Zhihui Yang Jiangxi University oPf Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v8n3p1

Keywords: eco-translatology, report on the work of nanchang municipal government, culture-specific expressions, three-dimensional transformation

Abstract

With the deepening of globalization, China has closer ties with other countries in the world. Under this premise, the translation of external publicity is particularly important. As one of the external publicity texts, the Report on the Work of the Government (RWG) involves many fields such as social development, national planning and people's livelihood. And for translating Culture-specific Expressions, it is a clear aim to enable readers from other countries based on different cultural contexts to understand our government’s work in the past year and define the objectives, policies and measures for future work via the translation. The Report on the Work of Nanchang Municipal Government (RWNMG) mainly deals with the summary of Nanchang's work and the prospect of all aspects of the government's work scheme in the future. It involves some new concepts and new terms with distinctive local characteristics and features of the times. Eco-Translatology was put forward by Professor Hu Gengshen in 2001, and it constantly explores translation from the perspective of ecology and gives a new description of the essence and process of translation based on the principles of "adaptation" and "selection". Professor Hu studies the relationship between the Eco-environment of translation and the translator and puts forward three-dimensional transformation. Under the guidance of Eco-Translatology, this translation practice attempts to discuss the translation of the culture-specific expressions in RWNMG at lexical level, syntactic level and rhetorical level. The purpose is to analyze the translation of culture-specific expressions in RWNMG, and summarize the relevant translation methods and skills through the adaptation and selection of three-dimensional transformation from the linguistic dimension, cultural dimension and communicative dimension. This paper aims to find methods to deal with English translation of culture-specific expressions, so as to improve the quality of the translation.

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