TY  - JOUR
T1  - Semantic Translation in Translating Chinese to Thai
AU - Yang, Bilyu AU - Wongpinunwatana, Wirat 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 16
SP  - 3060
EP  - 3066
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2020.3060.3066
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.3060.3066
KW  - Semantic translation
KW  -Chinese
KW  -Thai
KW  -Peter Newmark
KW  -book series
AB  - Semantic translation based on Peter
Newmark’s translation theory was widely discussed in the
translation between English and Chinese or between
English and Thai. However, there is still few research
focused on translation between Chinese and Thai. Hence,
the study aims to discuss the application and possible
benefit of semantic translation in translating Chinese to
Thai. In this research, the book series of “Common
Knowledge about China” was selected as case, since,
those books were proved to be high quality in translations.
Semantic translation in the series were noted, summarized
and interpreted. Someone of them was selected and
presented as example in the part of results. As results
shown, semantic translation was widely used in
translating compound sentences including supporting
sentences, interrupted sentence, causal sentence,
conditional statement, parallel sentence and progressive
sentence. Translating compound sentences by semantic
translation would be able to hold the meaning to the
Chinese as close as possible with a similar grammatical
structure. In addition, semantic translation was also used
to translate nine Chinese idioms to Thai which prefer to
translate with short phrases, since, it is still difficult to
find perfect idioms from Thai to translate Chinese idioms.
Based on the results, we concluded that semantic
translation based on Peter Newmark’s translation theory
could be used to translate compound sentences and idioms
from Chinese to Thai. By using this strategy, many
benefits would be presented.
ER  -