A New Insight into Comprehension and Translation of"Rules"for Abstract Writing
Chunfang Zhang · Standard Science · 2009
There exist some problems in abstract writing and C-E abstract translation in some journals of China.A comparative study was conducted in abstract rules between Documentation-Abstracts for Publications and Documentation(ISO)214-1976(E)and Rules for Abstracts and Abstracting(GB6447-1986). And the results show that the stylistics,discourse and genre of the abstract in bothrulesare confirmed; some rules in(ISO)214-1976(E)are equally adopted in those of GB6447-1986;the differences in bothrulesare caused by different thinking modes between China and Western countries;(ISO)214-1976(E)should be refered to in C-E abstract translation;the mode of English expression be abided by,the style of the original be remained and modern linguistic features in abstract writing be kept track of.The best way of writing a normalized abstract is exploring further therulesthemselves.