A Study on the Strategies for Translating Place Names in Lingnan Folk Tales with the Perspective of Eco-translatology

Lingnan folk tales reflect the customs of region. The places involved in are named various ways, either reflecting geographical location, or people’s livelihood. Taking differences language and culture between Chinese English into consideration, this paper analyzes eco-translatology theory several general strategies for translating place names China before applying framework constructed by dimension, dimension communication from perspective to translate tales. cases point show that translation methods such as direct translation, free annotation can be applied according specific cultural context communicative intention with ultimate goal let survive effectively ecology target language, spread source text make readers arouse same feeling brought text.