At present,strengthening China’s international communication capabilities and enhancing China’s global influence have become important tasks.This study selects 60 pieces of soft news from China Daily from March 2023...At present,strengthening China’s international communication capabilities and enhancing China’s global influence have become important tasks.This study selects 60 pieces of soft news from China Daily from March 2023 to February 2024 as research objects and explores China’s national image from the source texts.Then,based on Mona Baker’s narrative theory,it analyzes the translation strategies to reconstruct the image of China,further revealing the regular characteristics of their application.Through translation,the reconstructed national image of China becomes more positive and more acceptable to foreign readers,effectively promoting the dissemination of Chinese stories in the international community.It is significant for promoting international understanding and cooperation,as well as effectively utilizing translation as a tool to enhance China’s national image.展开更多
The author gives a thorough interpretation of the translation process and methods under the framework of relevance theory based on the actual pairs of Chinese soft news and the counterpart English versions well select...The author gives a thorough interpretation of the translation process and methods under the framework of relevance theory based on the actual pairs of Chinese soft news and the counterpart English versions well selected from authoritative bilingual magazines. The author attests the explanatory force of relevance theory to soft news translation and shows that the aim of all the translation methods is to provide adequate contextual effects and achieve optimal relevance to the target audience, namely, to guarantee the successful communication--the intentions of the communicator and the expectations of the audience meet.展开更多
文摘At present,strengthening China’s international communication capabilities and enhancing China’s global influence have become important tasks.This study selects 60 pieces of soft news from China Daily from March 2023 to February 2024 as research objects and explores China’s national image from the source texts.Then,based on Mona Baker’s narrative theory,it analyzes the translation strategies to reconstruct the image of China,further revealing the regular characteristics of their application.Through translation,the reconstructed national image of China becomes more positive and more acceptable to foreign readers,effectively promoting the dissemination of Chinese stories in the international community.It is significant for promoting international understanding and cooperation,as well as effectively utilizing translation as a tool to enhance China’s national image.
文摘The author gives a thorough interpretation of the translation process and methods under the framework of relevance theory based on the actual pairs of Chinese soft news and the counterpart English versions well selected from authoritative bilingual magazines. The author attests the explanatory force of relevance theory to soft news translation and shows that the aim of all the translation methods is to provide adequate contextual effects and achieve optimal relevance to the target audience, namely, to guarantee the successful communication--the intentions of the communicator and the expectations of the audience meet.
