Interdisciplinar y Behavior and Social Sciences – Lumban Gaol (Ed.)
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Study on corpus-based translation of Xi’an tourism publicity
X.L. Lei
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
ABSTRACT: Tourism publicity is of great importance to promote the local tourism development and attract
foreign tourists. On reviewing the previous studies related with corpus-based translation and Xi’an tourism
publicity, this paper carries out a primary analysis on corpus-based translation of Xi’an tourism publicity. Using
35 English tourism publicity materials selected from Dayan PagodaTourist Resort in Xi’an, China, the translation
problems existing in these samples are firstly examined