On The Tour Guide Interpreting Chinese English Translation Strategies

The interpreting quality of sinicized English by tour guides has a close bearing onChina’s international image. Unfortunately, however, there are few relevant studies orresearches that can hardly meet the need of cultural communication. This thesis, derivedfrom tour guide interpreting practice，focuses on how to interpret sinicized Englishswiftly, accurately and flexibly by means of proper strategies. The thesis first gives anoverview of tour guide interpreting and its traits. Then, it defines sinicized English byclassifying expressions and statements of it, thereby revealing its worldwide impact.Further, six possible interpreting strategies (namely Transliteration Strategy, LiteralInterpreting Strategy, Transliteration and Literal Interpreting Strategy, ParaphraseStrategy, Omission Strategy and Mixed Interpreting Strategy) are summarizedincorporating the writer’s personal tour guiding experience. The pros and cons of eachstrategy are analyzed on the basis of a multitude of in-depth original cases. It is theauthor’s intention that the research into this subject would not only help instill newvitality into inbound Chinese-English guide interpreting, but contribute to popularizingthe culture and civilization of the Chinese nation.