Title: A TENTATIVE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE MASS MEDIA ON TRANSLATION
Abstract:Mass media have produced a great impact on human life and activities. Translation, as an activity in the human society, is unavoidably under its influence. This paper argues that the mass media have m...Mass media have produced a great impact on human life and activities. Translation, as an activity in the human society, is unavoidably under its influence. This paper argues that the mass media have made acceptable many of the rigorously word for word translations which are conventionally regarded as unacceptable, pioneered a new wave of transliteration and given an impetus to a wide use of the zero translation of the English abbreviations in the Chinese context.Read More
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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