Re-appraising self and other in the English translation of contemporary Chinese political discourse

Тао, Ли; Xu, Fang

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2018.04.003

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“…None of the respondents considers the translations to be unsuccessful, and all of them consider that the translators have successfully fulfilled the aims of the China's OBOR political speech texts. However, the author thinks that all of the respondents tend to only consider the texts' translations, yet neglect the Political Discourse aspect that in China's realm has its basic standards on "loyalty to the source texts" as well as "foreignization and redundancy as the genre of the source texts' translation" (Tao Li and Fang Xu, 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Discourse Analysis in Translation of Speech Texts on "One Belt One Road (OBOR)"

Hutabarat¹

2019

Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)

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A Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) is an approach used in this study to analyze China's political speech on "One Belt One Road (OBOR)". The speech texts on OBOR as a case study is analyzed through a written interview with the Chinese scholars and mainly is aimed to analyze the translators' works as well as to find out the discourse's results. The case study presents the point of views from Mainland China's scholars in National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) as the respondents, while content analysis is based on an insider's perspective, i.e., the Chinese government through its missions' translators. In this study, data gathered from official websites of the PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in UN Mission and Melbourne. There are Chinese thousands of characters and English words of speech texts to be explored. As a result, the study not only describes the relation of scholars' background with their translation but also analyze their understanding of OBOR's concepts and their applied components, e.g. strategies/techniques/styles. Finally, the components served as indicative functions to successfully deliver messages in-lined to the discourse. There were five main components applied in the texts translation, e.g., domestication, foreignization, changes in content/structure, metaphor, and omission. It is shown that the translators aim to create a friendly image of China by emphasizing slightly different words but in close meaning to the source texts; thus creating a new meaning in the target texts as well as weakening the words' weight in the target texts.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Discourse Analysis in Translation of Speech Texts on "One Belt One Road (OBOR)"

Hutabarat¹

2019

Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019)

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“…In the Chinese context, an increasing amount of Chinese political texts are being translated into English and other languages in response to the need of international communication. In the meanwhile, among the Chinese scholarship there has been a growing amount of studies on political translation (e.g., Fu, 2018;Huang, 2004;Li, 2013;Li & Xu, 2018;Zhang, 2004). Early studies (e.g., Xiong, 1999;Y.…”

Section: Political Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although political translation studies are drawing increasing attention, most of them focus on English as target language (e.g., Fu, 2018;Li, 2013;Li & Xu, 2018). Moreover, comparative studies of political translations in two or more languages are rarely found.…”

Section: Political Translationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Genre Approach to the Translation of Political Speeches Based on a Chinese-Italian-English Trilingual Parallel Corpus

2020

Sage Open

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Using a trilingual parallel corpus, this article investigates the translation of Chinese political speeches in Italian and English, with the aim to explore cross-linguistic variations regarding translation shifts of key functional elements in the genre of political speeches. The genre-based methodology includes a rhetorical move analysis, which is used to highlight key functional elements of the genre, and a functional grammar analysis of translation shifts of the lexico-grammatical elements identified in the previous stage. The findings show that the core communicative function of the genre is “Proposing deontic statements,” and modality of obligation is essential for the realization of this rhetorical function. Afterwards, the analysis of translation shifts of deontic modality reveals that the English translation is characterized by higher modality value shifts in comparison to the Italian translation. This difference may be related to the degree of autonomy in translation choice and understanding of the communicative purposes of the translation genre. In terms of methodological implications, this functionalist approach attempts to providing insights into the communicative purposes of the translation genre by focusing on how key functional elements are translated.

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“…Appraisal System, which explores the -interpersonal metafunction‖ Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) of language, is an important development of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It is a useful tool for discourse analysis of various genres, including official statements or reports (Huan, 2016a;Li and Xu, 2018;Smith and Adendorff, 2014;Swain, 2012;Vertommen et al, 2012) and comparatively more personal texts such as Trump's tweets (Ross and Caldwell, 2020), personal emails (Ho, 2014), online hotel reviews (Tian, 2013), academic thesis (Geng and Wharton, 2019) and doctors' discourse (Gallardo and Ferrari, 2010). The present study, endeavoring to analyze news discourse, will also adopt Appraisal System as the analytical framework.…”

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From Confrontation to Collaboration: Attitudinal Changes of Trish Regan on US-China Trade War in Commentaries and Debate

Weichao¹,

Zhang²

2020

ELLR

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In her cross-border debate with Chinese anchor Liu Xin, Trish Regan, an American anchor, behaved differently than what she had done in her previous commentaries. This paper explores the attitudinal differences evinced by Trish Regan on different occasions from a linguistic perspective. Based on the Appraisal System, especially the Attitude subsystem (Martin and White, 2005), this paper examines the attitudinal resources utilized by Trish Regan in her two news commentaries and her online debate with her counterpart Liu Xin—a set of texts which provides a longitudinal account of how Trish has changed her attitude. By annotating the attitude resources used by Trish, positive and negative evaluations are expected to be clarified, with detailed analyses of subsystems in the Attitude System to be given. The results suggest that Trish’s attitude towards China has changed a lot in her commentaries and the debate with Liu Xin—from negative to partly positive. It also appears that Trish maintained a positive attitude towards the United States while she changed her positive attitude towards the trade war into a negative one in her debate with Liu Xin.

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Re-appraising self and other in the English translation of contemporary Chinese political discourse

Cited by 21 publications

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Political Discourse Analysis in Translation of Speech Texts on "One Belt One Road (OBOR)"

Political Discourse Analysis in Translation of Speech Texts on "One Belt One Road (OBOR)"

A Genre Approach to the Translation of Political Speeches Based on a Chinese-Italian-English Trilingual Parallel Corpus

From Confrontation to Collaboration: Attitudinal Changes of Trish Regan on US-China Trade War in Commentaries and Debate

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