Translation studies in Hong Kong have been focusing mainly on the
literary aspect of the discipline. Although huge amounts of bilingual
texts are churned out every year from virtually every government and
quasi-government department and other institution, these products of
translation, as well as the work processes involved, do not receive due
attention of the academia for research purposes. Studies on translation of
this type and nature may have largely been ignored.
To promote academic studies in this field, this thesis attempts to establish
Public Administration Translation as a genre which bears distinctive
features and a production process of its own, although the linguistic
features of this genre do not form part of the present study and are left for
future exploration. To achieve this goal, a general history of Public
Administration Translation in Hong Kong with regard to various grades of
Public Administration Translation service providers has been compiled to
track the development of these grades, as well as the relations among them.
With a view to putting Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation in a
sociolinguistic perspective, a sociolinguistic framework regarding societal
multilingualism types with reference to territorial monolingualism,
bilingualism and trilingualism, as well as diglossia and triglossia, is
proposed for discussing Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation
and its service providers. After detailed analysis and discussion, it is
suggested that Hong Kong’s sociolinguistic situation has always been
evolving in response to its political and demographic development, and the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region seems to be moving towards a
society of biliteracy (i.e. Standard Written Chinese and written English)
and trilingualism (i.e. Cantonese, spoken English and Putonghua) while
Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation keeps reacting accordingly
to the changes in the sociolinguistic situation of the community. / published_or_final_version / Chinese / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:HKU/oai:hub.hku.hk:10722/174525 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Chung, Lung-shan, Peter., 鍾龍山. |
| Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
| Source Sets | Hong Kong University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PG_Thesis |
| Source | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47849678 |
| Rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works., Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License |
| Relation | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) |
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