The Metaphor and Translation of the Dish Names in Chinese Food Culture
- 1 College of Foreign Language Education and International Business, Baoding University, Baoding, China
- 2 College of Foreign Language Education and International Business, Baoding University, Baoding, China
- 3 Foreign Language College, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China
Abstract
China is a country famous for different kinds of delicious food. Chinese people attach great importance to the naming of dishes. With the globalization of the world economy in recent years, the translation of dish names has received more and more attention from domestic scholars and related academic institutions. This kind of cross-language and cultural communication activities involves not only the conversion between language symbols, but also the integration of cultures. Chinese metaphor-loaded dish names are an important feature of Chinese recipe names, which are derived from the concept of food culture of the Chinese nation. Only by grasping the connection between Chinese metaphor-loaded dish names and Chinese traditional culture, can we truly grasp the colorful language phenomena presented in metaphor-loaded dish names. Aiming at solving the translation problems of metaphor-loaded dish names, this paper proposes techniques that can be used in translation, in order to provide reference in food translation and boost the spread of Chinese food culture.
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