Translating Culture-specific Items in Vietnamese Cultural Festival Texts into English

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211224.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural Festival; Culture-Specific Item; Translation; Tourism; Text

Abstract

In recent years, tours of cultural festivals in Viet Nam have been on the rise thanks to the increasing demands from foreign visitors, which requires high-quality English versions of cultural festival texts for tour guidance and tourism promotion, contributing to a positive image for Viet Nam. However, such texts are burdened with a large number of culture-specific items that are not easily translated from Vietnamese into English. This paper aims at exploring culture-specific terms in cultural festival texts, identifying their categories, and then applying appropriate techniques to translate them from Vietnamese into English. Using the SLD MultiTerm software, the researchers collected the data from 300 texts about the 100 most popular festivals organized throughout Viet Nam all year round. The research results are a list of Vietnamese-English culture-specific terms with interpretations of their meanings and translations, and they all serve as a useful resource for tourism, culture, and translation courses at universities in Viet Nam.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nguyen Thi Nhu Ngoc
AU  - Van Thi Nha Truc
AU  - Nguyen Anh Quan
AU  - Le Thi Ngoc Anh
AU  - Tran Cao Boi Ngoc
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Translating Culture-specific Items in Vietnamese Cultural Festival Texts into English
BT  - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (AsiaCALL–2-2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 356
EP  - 372
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211224.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211224.035
ID  - Ngoc2021
ER  -