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Report On The Translation Of BBC News

Posted on:2015-04-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431985757Subject:Translation
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The trend of world integration and economy globalization peeped when humanset foot in1950s. At the same time, great changes took place in the category oftranslation theory research, and scholars took full consideration of cultural factorsfrom the initial code switching. All the countries are paying more attention to culturalphenomena which can reflect the national characteristics, and trying to make thembecome the national logos. Language, as an important part of culture, is the carrier ofculture and manifestation of culture as well. Culture-loaded words, the mostsensitively and directly, reflecting the unique features of a certain nation, havebecome a hot academic research in recent years. When we investigate the reasons, wecan get the conclusion that they are the embodiment of international background inthe academic field.The definition of culture-loaded words has not reached the consensusacademically, but all of the definitions are sure of its components–connotativemeanings and cultural meanings–are the combination of the two. According toEugene Nida, readers are the service objects for translation. To evaluate the quality oftranslation, the response of TT readers must be considered. Meanwhile, we mustcompare it with the response of ST readers. Since the cultural differences of easternand western world, it is not an easy task to translate the cultural meanings ofculture-loaded words for any a translator.This report take BBC news as the material, and focus on the analysis of theprocess of identification, understanding and translation. The author put the theoreticalsupport into personal experience; and eventually obtained certain enlightenments. Thereport also has certain reference significance for further studying the BBC newstranslation.
Keywords/Search Tags:BBC News, Culture-loaded words, Translation
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