Strategies of Overcoming Challenges in Travel Guides Translation (a Corpus-Based Study)

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Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.46991/tstp/2022.2.1.058

I. Mkhitaryan, T. Grigoryan

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Abstract

The action research is a parallel corpus study that delves into the translation peculiarities of translated English travel guides and a few websites. The corpus is based on Newmark`s strategies which endorse the availability of effective analyses. The results of the findings have shown: (a) as a full expression of simplification, one of the translation universals, translated English tourism texts are more concise than their Armenian source texts through the omission of detailed information in listings and culture-specific information in the original ; (b) translated English tourism texts are more formal and detached in tone than that of Armenian original through the frequent adoption of nominalization; (c) translation strategies are of great avail to find out mistranslations and misinterpretations of the tourist texts. The very research instantiated intricacies between the translated English tourism texts and the source text in Armenian by highlighting the thematic and formal features of tourism discourse in translation, which may also become an essential pedagogic platform in translating tourism texts from Armenian into English.

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旅游指南翻译中克服挑战的策略(基于语料库的研究)

行动研究是一种平行语料库研究，探讨了翻译后的英语旅游指南和一些网站的翻译特点。语料库基于Newmark的策略，该策略支持有效分析的可用性。调查结果表明:(a)作为翻译普遍现象之一的简化的充分表现，翻译的英语旅游文本比其亚美尼亚源文本更简洁，因为清单中省略了详细信息，原文中省略了特定文化的信息;(b)由于经常采用名词化，翻译的英语旅游文本比亚美尼亚原文的语气更正式和超然;(c)翻译策略有助于发现旅游文本的误译和误读。该研究通过强调翻译中旅游话语的主题和形式特征，实例化了翻译后的英语旅游文本与亚美尼亚语源文本之间的复杂性，这也可能成为将亚美尼亚语旅游文本翻译成英语的重要教学平台。

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Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Multiple-

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3.30

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7.70%

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期刊介绍： Perspectives: Studies in Translatology encourages studies of all types of interlingual transmission, such as translation, interpreting, subtitling etc. The emphasis lies on analyses of authentic translation work, translation practices, procedures and strategies. Based on real-life examples, studies in the journal place their findings in an international perspective from a practical, theoretical or pedagogical angle in order to address important issues in the craft, the methods and the results of translation studies worldwide. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology is published quarterly, each issue consisting of approximately 80 pages. The language of publication is English although the issues discussed involve all languages and language pairs.