Strategies for Chinese-English Translation of Museum Exhibits: A Case Study of National Palace Museum

• Main Author: 蕭偉伶
• Other Authors: 曾文培
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3x7dpy

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 翻譯研究所 === 103 === With increasingly prosperous tourism, tourism translation is highly needed. Most studies focus on translation of tour sites, brochures, and signs but seldom on museum translation. Museums serve as places where preserve, share and spread cultures.Translation of exhibits in museums enables worldwide visitors to understand and then appreciate the culture. However, this process inevitably encounters difficulty like cultural vacancy; that is, Chinese elements or concepts are absent in English culture. To deal with this difficulty, foreignization and domestication are the two main concepts. Each one includes its particular translation strategies. Hopefully through this study, more studies about museum translation are expected in the future.