Rhetorical Mutual Translation between English and Chinese: A Guide

Author: Zheng Yali
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is a textbook suitable for college students majoring in English-Chinese translation, rhetoric, and those interested in English and Chinese writing. The purpose of this book is to enhance readers' understanding of rhetoric and improve their ability in English-Chinese translation. This book has three distinctive features: , we combine the achievements of Chinese and Western scholars in recent years in linguistics, rhetoric, and translation studies, and discuss various issues of translation rhetoric in depth from four aspects: semantics, grammar, phonetics, and pragmatics. Second, the English-Chinese examples used in this book exceed 300, each with a source noted. The English examples are from modern popular novels in the UK and the US, while the Chinese examples are from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. As for the scope of data collection, most of it is from novels and essays, with a small part from other materials such as poetry, speeches, and pop songs. Third, this book analyzes 23 commonly used rhetorical devices, with an equal number of examples for English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English translation. Each example first lists the original sentence, followed by its translation, with discussions in between. Even without a teacher's assistance, readers can read this book independently.