新修辞视角下的中国商务会议网页文本英译研究的中期报告Mid-termReportonEnglishTranslationofChineseBusinessConferenceWebsiteTextfromthePerspectiveofNewRhetoricIntroductionThepurposeofthisreportistoprovideanoverviewoftheprogressandfindingsoftheongoingresearchprojectontheEnglishtranslationofChinesebusinessconferencewebsitetextfromtheperspectiveofnewrhetoric.ThestudyaimstoanalyzethelinguisticfeaturesofChinesebusinessconferencewebsitetextandtodevelopanewtranslationstrategybasedontheprinciplesofnewrhetoric.LiteratureReviewNewrhetoricviewsthetextasacommunicativeeventthatinvolvesadynamicprocessofpersuasion,negotiation,andunderstandingbetweenthesenderandthereceiver.Newrhetoricemphasizesthecontext,audience,purpose,andintertextualfactorsthatinfluencetheproductionandreceptionofthetext.Therefore,thetranslatorneedstotakeintoaccountnotonlythelinguisticandculturalaspectsofthesourcetextandtargettextbutalsotherhetoricalandsocio-pragmaticdimensionsofthecommunicativesituation.Chinesebusinessconferencewebsitetextischaracterizedbyavarietyofrhetoricaldevicesandconventions,suchasmetaphors,allusions,idioms,slogans,discoursemarkers,andpersuasivestrategies.ThesefeaturesreflecttheculturalnormsandvaluesoftheChinesebusinessdiscourse,whichemphasizesharmony,reciprocity,face-saving,andguanxi(personalconnections).However,thesefeaturescanposechallengestothetranslator,whoneedstoconveytheintendedmeaningsandfunctionsofthesedevicesinthetargettextwithoutsacrificingtheclarityandcoherenceofthetext.MethodologyThestudyadoptedacomparativecorpus-basedapproach,whichinvolvedcollectingandanalyzingabilingualcorpusofChineseandEnglishbusinessconferencewebsitetext.Thecorpuswasselectedfromavarietyofsources,includinggovernmentagencies,chambersofcommerce,industryassociations,andcommercialplatforms.Thecorpuswasanalyzedusingthefollowingmethods:1.Linguisticanalysis:Thisinvolvedidentifyingandcategorizingtherhetoricaldevicesandconventionsusedinthetexts,suchasmetaphors,idioms,allusions,discoursemarkers,andpersuasivestrategies.2.Genreanalysis:Thi