5 . 5  A f f i x a t i o n 8

5.6 Interpretation 9

6. Conclusion 9

Works Cited 11

1. Introduction

Nowadays, internet is playing an increasingly important role in our daily life, and the network communication is in rapid development as a result. With the rapid prevalence of the internet, here emerges a further increasing number of network users and network language  as a new phenomenon and communication tool also going through an unprecedented development. Network language is a mirror of social and culture development which can mirror the characteristics of society. The network buzzwords are part of network language, which first appeared and became popular in the network, created or used by netizens and was given a special meaning or reference. In the wake of the rising of China’s international status, a growing number of foreign friends become more and more interested in getting to knowing what China is really like and what is really happening in China. Besides, different nations enjoy different life styles, traditions and conventions, therefore, specific things and phenomenon need specific expressions to deliver different culture features. For this reason, when doing translation of contemporary Chinese sayings, it’s inadequate to just transfer from one linguistic form to another because of some specific cultural connotations. Under these circumstances, how to do better Chinese-English rendering and to bring out legible English reading materials for foreigners is an urgent, yet very elusive problem.论文网

This thesis collects extensive information to give an in-deep study of the  C-E translation of network catchwords spreading in recent years. It mainly focuses on six translation methods, and a large number of samples are cited to the analysis of the catchwords translation. One of the primary purposes of this text is to indicate how to express unique and abstract Chinese ideas in English so as to fill in the cultural and lexical gaps  in Chinese-English translation on the basis of many scholars’ ideas in the East and the West. The author is also aimed at introducing our modern culture to visitors to China in order to make Chinese network buzzwords important carriers for spreading Chinese culture.

This dissertation is pided into 6 parts. Part one introduces a general picture of the research which includes purpose and the overall structure of this text so as to show why the author is interested in this research, and the significance of doing research on contemporary Chinese network buzzwords and their translations. In the second part, the author makes a

literature review of previous studies on contemporary Chinese vogue expressions and their translations; some accomplished research papers are listed. Part three and part four respectively analyze three ways in forming Chinese network buzzwords, and classifying their four characteristics. In part five, a great quantity of representative examples of contemporary Chinese vogue expressions is used to analyze the translation issues so that various related ordinary translation methods are applied. Part six summarizes the whole essay and comes to the conclusion.

2. Literature Review

Since 1990s, scholars have already lay special emphasis on Chinese network buzzwords, however, the research then is still in the section of tentative exploration. Some of those representative dissertations are City Buzzwords and Social-Cultural Analysis (Baker, 101-107) analyzing the development and variation of buzzwords in the contemporary society with the reality of transformation as well as the relation between catchwords and background of social culture and psychological changes of urban people; Metaphorically Semantic   Generalization of Vogue Expressions (Crystal, 16-18) discusses the semantic generalization of metaphors of buzzwords.来.自>优:尔论`文/网www.chuibin.com