A Study of the English Translation of Chinese University Mottoes from the Perspective of Nominalization

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10.2991/meici-16.2016.119How to use a DOI?

Keywords

University Mottoes; English translation; Nominalization; Translation strategies

Abstract

A motto shows the spirit and culture of the university and publicizes its educational tenet. Nominalization makes language concise and refined, and easily impress readers. By analyzing 30 pieces of western university mottoes, it explores that nominalization is very common in the mottoes of western universities. And the comparison between western university mottoes and Chinese university mottoes gives a solution to the English translation of Chinese university mottoes and many problems may be avoided such as chinglish and being lengthy.

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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  - Z'henghua Tan
AU  - Ying Z'hou
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TI  - A Study of the English Translation of Chinese University Mottoes from the Perspective of Nominalization
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 1951-6851
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