Translating Dish Names: Food Cultural Representation in Hong Lou Meng - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.2 No.2, February 2015

Translating Dish Names: Food Cultural Representation in Hong Lou Meng ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1101316 4,319 Downloads 7,632 Views Citations

Author(s)

Aimin Peng

Affiliation(s)

Department of Foreign Languages, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT

Dish name translation in literary texts is worth studying; it’s different from restaurant menu translation. This article differentiates the two translations by Yang & Yang and Hawkes through studying on the translation of dish names in Hong Lou Meng and puts forward three principles and three suggestions from the linguistic level and cultural level, respectively.

KEYWORDS

Food Culture in Hong Lou Meng, Dish Name Translation

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Peng, A. (2015) Translating Dish Names: Food Cultural Representation in Hong Lou Meng. Open Access Library Journal, 2, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1101316.

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