Translation Case Study on the Text Contrast of Chinese 
and American Star Hotels Welcome Card of Aesthetic 
Choice

Lanyue Zhang

doi:10.70711/frim.v3i1.5875

Translation Case Study on the Text Contrast of Chinese and American Star Hotels Welcome Card of Aesthetic Choice

Lanyue Zhang

Abstract

In recent years, with the improvement of peoples living standards, the continuous improvement of infrastructure construction and
the end of the epidemic, Chinas tourism industry has flourished and become one of the important industries supporting the national economy.
Accommodation and transportation are usually two important conditions in the process of travel. Hotel services have an important impact on
the comfort and convenience of tourists. Therefore, in terms of humanistic care in hotel services, combined with the comparison of text aesthetic selection in aesthetic linguistics, this paper analyzes the differences and similarities in the content of making welcoming cards between
Chinese and western brand star hotels, and is committed to providing suggestions on the design and translation of welcome cards for Chinese
local brand hotels.

Keywords

Aesthetic linguistics; Hotel welcome card; English translation strategies; Discourse aesthetic choice

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/frim.v3i1.5875

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