A Study on the Translation of the 2024 Government Work Report from the Perspective of Iconicity Theory

Xia Huang

doi:10.63313/LLCS.9006

Authors

Xia Huang School of Foreign Language, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63313/LLCS.9006

Keywords:

2024 Government Work Report, Iconicity, Translation

Abstract

Iconicity, with its unique form of language cognition, refers to the existence of similarity or direct connection between the form of lin-guistic symbol and its meaning. This thesis aims to analyze the transla-tion strategies of 2024 Government Work Report from the four dimensions of sequence iconicity, mark iconicity, distance iconicity, and quantity iconicity. The study finds that sequence iconicity reflects the commonalities in the narrative structures of Chinese and English by retaining the temporal and logical sequences of the source domain. Mark iconicity highlights the core information and key content of the source domain by adding explanations. Distance iconicity reflects the close relationship between concepts by adjusting the positions of modifiers and core words. Quantity iconicity achieves the equivalent transfer of semantics through lexical addition and sentence pattern adjustment. This thesis reveals the applicability of the iconicity in the trans-lation of political texts and provides a theoretical basis for the translation practice of the Government Work Report

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