Abstract:With the growing trans-culture communication, especially the speedy growth of the tourism business, more and more overseas tourists come to Nanjing. The Chinese and English bilingual public signs in the scenic spots become a good choice to know about the attraction. This thesis, taking the English translation of Nanjing tourism public signs as an example, checks the quality of translation texts, including indicative signs, warning signs, prohibitive signs whether have these problems, such as the deficiency of cultural connotation, using Chinese Pinyin instead of English, literal translation, Chinese English, non-standard translation, etc. This thesis analyzes the problems and puts forward some more accurate and practical English translation.

Key words: public signs; English translation; normalization

CONTENTS

Abstract

中文摘要

1. Introduction..1

2. Literature Review.2

  2.1 Public Signs in Scenic Spots: Definition and Functions

  2.2 Functional Equivalence: Translation Principle of Public Signs

3. Common Problems in Tourism Translation..3

  3.1 Spelling Errors

  3.2 Improper Lexical Choice

  3.3 Non-standard Writing

  3.4 Syntactic Problems

  3.5 Chinglish

4. Standardized way...6

 4.1 Improvement of Awareness to the Tourism Public Signs Translation Work

 4.2 Enhancement of the Translation Professionalism

 4.3 Establishment of Specialized Agencies to Guide the Supervision

5. Conclusion..8

Bibliography.10

Acknowledgement..11