ABSTRACT

Nowadays in the Chinese language, vogue words and expressions on the Internet have penetrated into people’s life. Specialists and scholars keen on studying buzzwords and catchphrases note that they have features of the contemporary era in word-formation, pronunciation and usage. These features, especially the homophonic phenomenon of them, cause a lot of difficulties to the C-E translation of these words and expressions. 

By applying translation stylistics, this paper clarifies the language features of and the translation strategies for homophonic vogue words and expressions in the Chinese language. The translation strategies explored here in details include explanatory translation, back translation, and transcription and transliteration. Sometimes the homophonic features of a vogue word or expression may be omitted to achieve the cross-cultural communicative effect of translation.

Keywords: Chinese Vogue Words and Expressions; Homophonic; Translation Strategies 

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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摘要

Chapter One  INTRODUCTION-1

Chapter Two  LITERATURE REVIEW-3

2.1 Previous Studies on Homophonic Phenomenon-3

2.2 Previous Studies on Homophonic Chinese Vogue Words and Expressions and Their English Renditions-4

Chapter Three  HOMOPHONIC PHENOMENON IN CHINESE VOGUE WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS-5

3.1 Homophones in Chinese Word-formation-5

3.2 Impact of Homophonic Phenomenon on Chinese Vogue Words and Expressions-6

Chapter Four  TRANSLATION OF HOMOPHONIC CHINESE VOGUE WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS-8

4.1 Translation Stylistics and Homophonic Phenomenon in Language-8

4.2 Translation Strategies for Homophonic Chinese Vogue Words and Expressions-9

   4.2.1 Explanatory Translation-9

4.2.2 Complete Homophonic Translation-10

4.2.3 Transcription & Transliteration-12

Chapter Five  CONCLUSION-14

REFERENCES-16