A Study on the Translation of Energy Science and Technology Texts from the Perspective of Semantic Translation and Communicative Translation
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Keywords
semantic translation, communicative translation, energy science and technology texts, translation strategies
Abstract
From the perspective of Peter Newmark’s semantic translation and communicative translation theories, this paper selects excerpts from Navigating the Energy Maze: The Transition to a Sustainable Future as the research object and conducts a case analysis combined with the stylistic features of energy science and technology texts. Through comparative analysis of translated versions, the study concludes that semantic translation can maximally retain the meanings of energy-specific terminologies and the syntactic structures of the original text, ensuring the professionalism and rigor of translations. Communicative translation, by contrast, complies with the reading habits of Chinese readers and adopts localized lexical conversion to produce more fluent translations. For texts concerning energy transition, translators may flexibly combine these two translation approaches.
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