Analysis of the English Translation about Cultural Relics in Museums from the Perspective of Eco-translatology: A Case Study of the National Museum of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202415336

Author(s)

Mingchao Yang, Wei Yang*

Affiliation(s)

School of Foreign Languages, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China *Corresponding Author.

Abstract

Eco-translatology is based on the isomorphic metaphor of translation ecology and natural ecology. It is considered to be an interdisciplinary study between ecology and translatology, which conduct a holistic study of translation process from the perspective of ecology through the application of ecological rationality. Therefore, this theory has the characteristics of adaptive, scientific and universal in allusion to the text of Chinese cultural relics. The translation of cultural relics not only involves the conversion between two languages, but also shoulders the mission of transmitting cultural information. It is urgent to alleviate the relative untranslatability of turning Chinese culture-loaded words into English. Based on the transformation principles in terms of linguistic, cultural and communicative dimensions, this paper attempts to translate the cultural relics in the Ancient China exhibition hall of the National Museum of China, in order to construct feasible strategies and alleviate semantic loss and semantic ambiguity.

Keywords

Eco-translatology; Multi-dimensional Transformation; Cultural Relics; Cultural-loaded Words

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