An Analysis on the Features and Translation Method of English Sports News

By Wang Zhongjie

In partial fulfillment of the requirement

For the B. A. degree

Department of English

College of Liberal Arts

Nanjing University of Information Science amp; Technology

May, 2018

Acknowledgments

At the time of completing this paper, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all who extended their hands in the process of writing this paper. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to my teacher, Miss Xiong. She has given me a lot of useful advice and has done her utmost to improve my thesis. Second, I would like to thank my classmates who gave me time reference and information. Finally, I would like to thank the leaders, teachers and staff, especially the staff of the College of Liberal Arts. Without their help, I will have difficulty completing my studies and dissertations.

contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Background 1

1.2 Layout of the thesis 1

2. Definition and features of news and English sports news 2

2.1 Definition of news 2

2.2 Features of News 3

1.2.1 Tendencies 3

2.2.2 Authenticity 3

2.2.3 Timeliness 3

2.2.4 Popularity 4

2.3 Definition of English sports news 4

2.4 The Features of English sports news 5

3. Definition of translation 7

4. Problems of English Sports News Translation 8

4.1 Veracity 10

4.2 Accuracy 10

4.3 Professionalism 11

5. Strategies and techniques for English sports news translation 11

5.1 Transliterations 12

5.2 Literal translation 12

5.3 free translation 13

5.4 To add a comment 14

6. Conclusion 14

7. References 16

An Analysis on the Features and Translation Method of English Sports News

Wang Zhongjie

Department of English

College of Liberal Arts

Nanjing University of Information Science amp; Technology

Abstract: With the development of China’s social economy and culture and the increasing international exchange, sports have become one of the much-concerned topics in people’s daily life. Inevitably sports news reports become an important channel for people to understand sports events and follow sports development. In addition to having the characteristics of general news, English sports news has its own unique language features and stylistic features. Therefore, readers will encounter a certain degree of difficulty in reading, especially for those non-native speakers of English. This article tries to analyze the salient characteristics of sports news and discusses problems and methods in translation of sports news in English so as to improve the quality and efficiency of sports news translation. It is hoped that it will be helpful to readers of English sports news.

Key words: English sports news; characteristics; translation

摘要：随着中国社会经济文化的发展以及国际交流的日益增强，体育运动已经成为日常生活中人们关心的话题之一。体育新闻报道已成为人们了解体育赛事关注体育发展的重要渠道。英语体育新闻除具有一般新闻的特点外，自身有其独特的语言特色及文体特征。因此读者在阅读时会有一定的障碍，尤其是针对那些不是以英语作为母语的读者。本文分析了体育新闻的特点，并探讨了英语体育新闻汉译时出现的问题和翻译方法，旨在提高体育新闻翻译的质量和效率，也希望能便于读者对英语体育新闻的阅读。

关键词：英语体育新闻；特点；翻译

1. Introduction

1.1 Background

Sport is the symbol of social civilization. As one kind of news, sports news plays an important role in social and cultural life. At the same time, it is international, so we need to deliver the latest sports news to meet the demands of fans across the world. As a matter of fact, more and more English sports news appears on newspapers magazines, TVs and Internet every day. English sports news is a type of news with its unique language features and writing styles, therefore, many scholars have studied various aspects of English sports news.

1.2 Layout of the thesis

The thesis consists of six parts. The first part provides the overview of this study and discusses the background of English sports news. And the second part summarizes the definition and features of news and English sports news. The third part introduces the definition of translation. Part four presents some problems of English sports news, digs into the causes of these problems and puts forward some suggestions on how to improve and reform the translation of English sports news. Finally, the conclusion summarizes the previous parts and explains the limitations of this thesis and its significance.

2. Definition and features of news and English sports news

The 21st century is a highly informationization era, represented by high-tech technology in which the information economy and the knowledge economy dominate and the spread of news and information media are the two mainstay industries. With the continuous development of science and technology, following newspapers, periodicals, radio, television, Internet and mobile phones appeared two mobile information platforms, and gradually become a dominant way of news spread. There is no doubt that along with the increasing diversity of news media, news communication is becoming more and more modern, the news spread to the world the influence of political, economic, cultural and other fields is also growing. (J. C 1965: 56-62)

2.1 Definition of news

News is a very broad concept, which can refer to either the news genre or the news report. The definition of encyclopedia in Baidu is: news means a style of recording and disseminating information frequently used by newspapers, radio, TV stations, Internet and other media. It is a style that records how society disseminates information and reflects the age. From the perspective of genre, news includes message, communication, interview, feature, investigation report, news sketch, journalist review, news picture, etc. From the content of the report, news includes political news, economic news, military news, legal news, science and technology news, education news, sports news, etc. From the nature of the report, news includes event news, non-event news, comprehensive news, reflecting news, explanatory news, breaking news, continuous reporting, etc. According to geographical distribution, news is divided into international news, domestic news, local news, etc. In short, the definition of news is: news with general narrative and concise words, rapid and timely reporting of news value and the facts at home and abroad recently.

2.2 Features of News

Journalistic style, both broad and narrow, they have the following common stylistic features:

1.2.1 Tendencies

News belongs to the category of ideology. So, in a sense, news for political services, targets at gathering and transmission, thus news produces some distinct tendencies. However, in news writing, there is usually a way to write subtext, which means “tendency” in “fact”, because such news is objective, real and appealing, which is more acceptable to readers.

2.2.2 Authenticity

Truth is the life of news. If there is no truth in a piece of news, or if the truth of the facts is not reliable enough, then this news loses its due significance. News writing must be based on the facts, and it must be real to attract people. Only in this way, we can make news retain its seriousness and reliability, encouragement, motivation and criticism. It can truly inspire, stimulate, criticize and promote the social function.

2.2.3 Timeliness

Just as the name implies, news ought to be new, so it has a very strong demand for time. According to the western definition of news, news should be the event of the past 24 hours, beyond this time, it will no longer be “news”, but “old news”. It serves to show “timeliness” is a main feature of the news, which style is different from other genres.

2.2.4 Popularity

Compared with other genres, news has a wide audience, because almost all people get news through different channels. So, the news is popular. However, to make people interested at different ages, from different careers and different education background, news materials will have to be close to the readers. Because the closer news audiences feel with the news, the greater its interest, the higher the attention. Because of this, news reports must be vivid and easy to understand.

2.3 Definition of English sports news

With the vigorous rise of all kinds of sports activities, the related writing has become a fashion. The so-called sports competition text, in a broad sense, its function is mainly to record sports people and things. It usually comes in the form of news coverage, covering all aspects of sport. For example, event preparation progress report, sponsors, project features summary, game field reports, interviews with athletes and officials, and even some gossip or scandal tracking reports, etc. The publishing platform of sport texts is dominated by professional sports newspapers, magazines and TV stations, radio stations and websites. At the same time, in most non-sports professional paper media and TV, radio and website, we can find regular sports sections, dedicated to the publication of such articles. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of the Internet, the vast majority of sports news is spread through the Internet, and people can see the sports news they want to see on the Internet anytime and anywhere.

It is worth mentioning that sometimes people also distinguish sports from athletics and regard them as two interrelated aspects of a whole. In this case, the former often refers to physical fitness for the purpose of mass sports or activities (a nationwide fitness campaign that has been carried out in many places in our country is an example). The latter refers specifically to competitive professional competitions among highly trained athletes.

2.4 The Features of English sports news

The sports competition text is the category of news coverage, and its style is relatively fixed and stylized. It is not only in the form of newsletters, special drafts, interviews, live broadcast and series of reports. Generally speaking, the purpose of this type of text is to convey relevant information to the audience. For example, a text message is often the result of a match; A feature is likely to be a review and summary of an event, or it may be the analysis and outlook before the game. As for the interview, the object may be a player; it is possible that the delegation of officials, or even the referee, no matter what the situation, inevitably contains a large number of relevant rules, terms, training arrangement, game content, nutrition and rehabilitation, etc. In a word, the core element of sports competition text is information, so long as this information can be accepted by the audience in a timely and effective way, then it achieves its goal. Therefore, if you compare the text type theory of Rice, it should obviously be included in the sequence of information text. Of course, it must be seen that there is a certain degree of emotional rendering and agitation in this type of text. For example, matches real-time live or reports often can make a person produce passion, excited feeling, because the responsible for on-site broadcast announcers or reporters would deliberate in the aspect of word choice and word to strengthen emotional inputs to attract the audience or listener. In addition, there is also the shadow of culture in sports. It is often said that “stylistics” refers to the interpenetration and integration between culture and sports.

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