A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation
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A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation

  1. 158 pages
  2. English
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A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation

About this book

A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation examines the issue of lexical non-equivalence between written Chinese and Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) translation, describing its theoretical and practical implications.

This research foregrounds the semiotic resources in the Deaf community of Hong Kong by analyzing translation strategies exhibited by Deaf Hongkongers when they were invited to translate written Chinese passages with specialized and culturally specific concepts in a monologic setting. With discourse analysis as a framework, the major findings of this research were that: (1) a taxonomy of strategies featured depiction, manual representations of Chinese characters and visual metonymy, writing and mouthing; (2) employment of multisemiotic and multimodal resources gave intended viewers access to different facets of meaning; and (3) repeated renditions of the same concepts gave rise to condensed, abbreviated occasionalisms.

Observations from this research serve as a point of reference for interpreting scholars, practitioners and students as well as policymakers who formulate interpretation service provision and assessment.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032478999
eBook ISBN
9781000921618
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Citation conventions
  10. Annotation conventions of language examples and translation data
  11. 1 Orientation to the sociolinguistic contexts of Deaf and hearing people in Hong Kong
  12. 2 Foundational concepts: Translation studies and discourse analysis
  13. 3 Engaging the Deaf community in written Chinese translation studies
  14. 4 A taxonomy of Deaf translators’ discourse strategies
  15. 5 How discourse strategies come together: Intertranslator styles, construction of discourse space and translanguaging
  16. 6 Maintaining referents and their evolution
  17. 7 Guiding expectations
  18. Appendix I: Chinese source texts and their English translations
  19. Appendix II: List of target items
  20. Index