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The Errors and Solutions on C-E Translation of Environmental Protection-Related Signs Guided by Functional Equivalence

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  • Wang Cai-ying
  • Dai Congjie

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With the growing concern about the environment protection, environmental protection-related signs are ubiquitous in China now. This paper first introduces the relevant concepts about functional equivalence, analyzes the errors and mistakes in Chinese-English translation of environmental protection-related signs and proposes some feasible solutions. Common errors in translations in question include linguistic errors, cultural errors and pragmatic errors which generally result from cultural discrepancy, the translators¡¯ incompetence and the initiators¡¯ carelessness. Some solutions like lexicon equivalence, semantic equivalence, syntax equivalence, discourse equivalence are proposed to solve these problems.

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  • Wang Cai-ying & Dai Congjie, 2018. "The Errors and Solutions on C-E Translation of Environmental Protection-Related Signs Guided by Functional Equivalence," Journal of Social Science Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 5(2), pages 33-42, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:mth:jsss88:v:5:y:2018:i:2:p:33-42
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