Author(s)

Xiaoli Hu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Jiangsu Maritime Institute, Jiangsu, Nanjing, 211170, China

Corresponding Author

Xiaoli Hu

ABSTRACT

Nautical idiom is an important part of English idioms and an indispensable part of the English language. This paper first discusses the three levels of meanings of social-semiotics and their relation to translation from the perspective of social-semiotics respectively. Then, five translation strategies are proposed for rendering English nautical idioms into Chinese: literal translation, borrowing, literal translation plus paraphrase, adaptation and sense translation, to convey the three levels of meanings of English nautical idioms more accurately into Chinese.

KEYWORDS

Nautical idiom, social-semiotics, translation strategy

CITE THIS PAPER

Xiaoli Hu, Study on English Nautical Idioms and Their Translation Strategies from the Perspective of Social-semiotics. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2022) Vol. 5: 36-40. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2022.050506.

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