Publications

Publication details [#41529]

Cortazzi, Martin and Shen Wei wei. 2001. Cross-linguistic Awareness of Cultural Keywords: A Study of Chinese and English Speakers. Language Awareness 10 (2-3) : 125–142.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | language awareness | meaning | translation

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

An analysis of common translations and explanations of six Chinese cultural keywords in English, demonstrates that their meanings are interrelated and overlapping.