Oriental and Occidental Number Cultures and Their Translation Teaching in English Major Students

DOI

10.2991/emcs-16.2016.474How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Number cultures; Translation teaching; Numerical languages; Fuzzy languages; Numerical translation

Abstract

Ethnic culture, religious belief, legends and tales have made a great impact on numbers in eastern and western cultures and they are endowed with special cultural connotation. This paper presents a detailed analysis of number cultures in eastern and western countries. By comparison between Chinese and English numbers in connotation and denotation it focuses on understanding the English and Chinese social cultures and avoiding conflicts and misunderstanding in cultural communication and translation teaching. With the aim to communicate fluently between different cultures, translation criteria of numbers are also discussed. Meanwhile, we draw attention to two differences associated with the use of numbers in different cultures, it can be of great help in translating numerical idioms into English or Chinese.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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