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Ko, Leong. 2012. Information loss and change of appellative effect in Chinese-English public sign translation. Babel 58 (3) : 309–326.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
appellative | informativeness | language and culture | sign | translation
Language as a subject
Chinese | English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/babel

Annotation

This paper discusses how Chinese-English public sign translation engenders loss of information and appellative effect shifts.