English Culture and Translation Studies (ePub)

Language is the medium of cultural communication and translation is the bridge of cross-cultural communication.High-quality English professionals are needed in the new century.To cultivate translation ability of English professionals, especially English-Chinese translation ability is one of the important teaching tasks for English majors at colleges and universities in the new century.To cultivate students' Chinese-English translation ability is not only to ensure that they can pass the yearly Test for English Majors-Band 8, but also to enable them to complete translation between English and Chinese within a certain period of time. The process of cultivating students' Chinese-English translation ability should be regarded as a process of improving students' comprehensive language quality, so that they not only have a certain level of English-Chinese translation, but also have a considerable ability of analyzing and solving problems independently, so as to be able to have an in-depth understanding of language and culture.As a new discipline, translation studies began to explore the cultural dimension in the 1970s.However, traditional translation studies always attach great importance to language analysis and text comparison, while don't pay enough attention to the study of cultural phenomena involved in language translation.Based on this new teaching idea and background, we wrote this book, English Culture and Translation Studies.