A Descriptive Study of Two English Versions of the Food Safety Law of the PRC

Jian Wang, Chun Wang

Abstract


Few studies on legal translation have been conducted from the perspective of Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). This study attempts to make a contrastive study of the two English versions of Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China (2009) under DTS. The research reveals the discrepancies at lexical, syntactic and textual levels between the two versions, and these linguistic divergences are attributable to such factors as patrons’ ideologies and legal cultures. This research further explores the correlations between ideology and culture and the translation strategies employed by translators, and casts a new insight into translation studies of legal texts.

 


Keywords


Contrastive study; Linguistic divergence; Inducing factor; DTS

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