A Study of Hotel Notices and Signs Translation from the Perspective of Text Typology

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10.2991/icassr-15.2016.267How to use a DOI?

Keywords

text typology, text function, intertextuality, translation principles, loan translation

Abstract

With the further advancement of economic globalization, there have been increasingly constant contacts between nations in the field of business, travel, culture, politics, etc. As a temporary home of foreign travelers in China, hotels and the bilingual services provided by them are increasingly important. Based on the theory of text typology and text functions, this essay will probe into the text features, functions, translation principles and problems in existence with the translation of hotel notices and public signs, in the hope of offering some advices for the contemporary bilingual environment of hotels in China.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fei Fang
AU  - Xiao-xiao Shen
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TI  - A Study of Hotel Notices and Signs Translation from the Perspective of Text Typology
BT  - Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
PB  - Atlantis Press
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