Transcript Chinglish
Abuse of Language Chinglish By Jasmine, Phoebe, Linda, Contents 1 Introduction and examples 2 Features of Chinglish 3 Main Causes of Chinglish 4 How to Avoid Chinglish 1. Chinglish and China English? ★中国式英语 ★中国式英语分为两种。一种是Chinese English，一种是China English。其中 Chinese English就是Chinglish，是用中 式的语法和英式的词汇组合成的，属于语言不 规范使用。 ★而China English指的则是中国特有的东西， 是允许存在的。比如“饺子、功夫、气功、阴 阳”等词都用音译文进入英文词典。 Carefully Slip Mixing room Ironing room Civilization tour followed by line Digital printing Long live the friendship Construction in progress 2. Features of Chinglish • 1. Unnecessary Words • 他的名字叫约翰。 • A: His name is called John. B: His name is John • 加快经济改革的步伐 • A: to accelerate the pace of economic reform • B: to accelerate economic reform 2. Saying the same thing twice: 暂时性 temporary in nature 新发明 new innovation. 互相合作 mutual cooperation 3. Unnecessary Category Words 促进和平统一事业 A: promoting the cause of peaceful reunification B: promoting peaceful reunification 中国经济现在还处在落后状态。 A: China’s economy is still in a state of backwardness. B: China’s economy is still backward. 4. Wrong Collocation 来信写道：the letter writes the letter reads 把中国建设成: build China into turn China into 接受九年义务教育：accept 9-year compulsory education receive a 9-year compulsory schooling 5. Syntactic(句法的) Error • 请再给我两小时。 • Please allow me more two hours. • Please give me another two hours. • 和他结婚以后，她的麻烦就开始了。 • After marrying him, her trouble • began. • After marrying him, she began to have troubles. 6. Ambiguous Reference • A: The doctor handed the child to the father with a smile on his face.(ambiguous) • B: With a smile on his face, the doctor handed the child to the father.( clear) 7. Improper Word Order • A: It’s estimated that our army will reach 5,500,000 at its peak next year. • B: It’s estimated that at its peak next year our army will reach 5,500,000. 8. Personification • 我们的事业从胜利走向胜利. • Our cause has won victories one after another.(Chinglish) • We have won one victory after another for our cause. • 宗教不得干预政治. • Religion must not interfere with politics.(Chinglish) • It’s impermissible to interfere with politics in the name of religion. 9. Word for word 国际关系民主化。 International relations should be democratized. Democracy should be practiced in international relations. 你的手表不对。 Your watch is not correct. Your watch doesn’t keep good time. End 3. Main causes of Chinglish • A. Cultural difference • 自由恋爱 • free love • free choice of marriage partner • Free love: sexual activity with several partners which does not involve loyalty to any particular person B. Different thought pattern • • • • • 中国队战胜了美国队 中国队战败了美国队. The Chinese Team won the American Teem. The Chinese team beat the American Team. ( It seems nothing different in meaning between these two sentences in Chinese, although they use two opposite verbs. English speaking people are really surprised at these two sentences .) • C. Different habitual usage • 西北—northeast 迟早--- sooner • • • • or later 左右--- right and left 水火--- fire and water 得失---loss and gain 下层社会---lower classes 您先请---after you 不长不短---neither shorter nor longer D. Syntactic difference A: Tom looked at me and felt surprised.( Chinglish) B: Tom looked at me in surprise. A: Susan ran out when it was raining hard. (Chinglish) B: Susan ran out into a heavy rain. Prep.+noun is often used in English. E. Misunderstanding of the Chinese original 中国经济是一个大问题 China’s economy is a big problem. China’s economy is an important question. 4. How to Avoid Chinglish? A. Guarding against Taking the Words at their Face Level 人文奥运 *people’s ( cultural) Olympics; culture-enriched Olympics 科技旅游 *technological tours; science-theme tourist B. Keeping a good dictionary at hand 酸奶 sour milk (The milk must have gone bad); yoghurt 宣传部 *propaganda department; department in charge of publicity Propaganda is a derogatory English word implying “false or partly false information used by a government or political party to make people agree with them”. C. Developing Pragmatic(实际的) Competence ★Translators’ pragmatic ability is part of their communicative competence. It comprises the ability to use language appropriately according to the context. More often than not, making a pragmatic error in a Chinglish sentence is far more serious than a linguistic one. 客人抵达后，外国主人会问： Would you like to make yourself comfortable? 凭票入场： Admission is by ticket only. 我最近常常想到你和贵国。 You and your country have been in my thoughts recently. End Thank You!