Translating China’s Public Signs into Good English: A Perspective of Linguistic Landscape

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10.2991/assehr.k.200205.002How to use a DOI?

Keywords

linguistic landscape, public signs, mistranslation, good English, quality control

Abstract

As part of linguistic landscape, English public signs play a significant role in promoting international communication for a city and boosting its overall image to tourists from home and abroad. Various monolingual (English) and bilingual (Chinese and English) signs in China, however, are found to be erroneous and misleading despite multiple positive endeavors. Causes underlying these errors are tracked down and analyzed. A quality control mechanism is proposed to address the indecent urban English landscape issue.

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© 2020, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guonian Wang
AU  - Min Jiang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/13
TI  - Translating China’s Public Signs into Good English: A Perspective of Linguistic Landscape
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 5
EP  - 8
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200205.002
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200205.002
ID  - Wang2020
ER  -