Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website
This study investigates the translation procedures of the translated cultural words on the tourism website and explores whether the cultural representation is author-oriented or reader-oriented. A descriptive qualitative research method was used in this study. Hangzhou tourism website is selected as...
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| author | Chen, Shiyue Shahila Mansor, Nor Mooisan, Chin Redzuan Abdullah, Muhammad Alif |
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| description | This study investigates the translation procedures of the translated cultural words on the tourism website and explores whether the cultural representation is author-oriented or reader-oriented. A descriptive qualitative research method was used in this study. Hangzhou tourism website is selected as the case. 160 cultural words were collected and extracted from the website in total. The results indicated that retention, calque, and paraphrase were widely used translation procedures, and cultural representation was author-oriented and tended to preserve the source culture. This study adds new knowledge to the existing Chinese-English online tourism translation studies and enhances the quality of tourism translation. |
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| spelling | upm-1078542024-12-10T02:49:26Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/107854/ Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website Chen, Shiyue Shahila Mansor, Nor Mooisan, Chin Redzuan Abdullah, Muhammad Alif This study investigates the translation procedures of the translated cultural words on the tourism website and explores whether the cultural representation is author-oriented or reader-oriented. A descriptive qualitative research method was used in this study. Hangzhou tourism website is selected as the case. 160 cultural words were collected and extracted from the website in total. The results indicated that retention, calque, and paraphrase were widely used translation procedures, and cultural representation was author-oriented and tended to preserve the source culture. This study adds new knowledge to the existing Chinese-English online tourism translation studies and enhances the quality of tourism translation. Sciedu Press 2023-02-07 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/107854/1/22883-75916-1-PB.pdf Chen, Shiyue and Shahila Mansor, Nor and Mooisan, Chin and Redzuan Abdullah, Muhammad Alif (2023) Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website. World Journal of English Language, 13 (2). pp. 168-175. ISSN 1925-0703; eISSN: 1925-0711 https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wjel/article/view/22883 10.5430/wjel.v13n2p168 |
| spellingShingle | Chen, Shiyue Shahila Mansor, Nor Mooisan, Chin Redzuan Abdullah, Muhammad Alif Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website |
| title | Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website |
| title_full | Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website |
| title_fullStr | Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website |
| title_short | Exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on Hangzhou Tourism Website |
| title_sort | exploring cultural representation through tourism-related cultural words translation on hangzhou tourism website |
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