Language Conflicts and Impacts On Informationalization and Globalization

We are in the time of globalization and informationalization, in which the dominant and common language is English. Following the general application of information technology (IT), especially of personal computers (PCs) and the internet, the English language and its culture have penetrated into almost all fields of Chinese society and have speeded up the process of development of China. However, on the other hand, our study found that there are still clear differences or even conflicts between these two languages, especially in cases of translation. Some of them might be attributed to individual qualifications and the proficiency of the translators, but more often than not, the problems are results rooted in the nature of language itself. Therefore, what we read from a translated version may not be the ‘true’ images or ‘original’ voices of its foreign counterparts. And the following cases in our study will interpret this