Chinese-English Translation of Tourism Text Based on the Conceptual Blending Theory

Tourism translation is not only a simple transformation between two languages, but also a cross-cultural communication activity, involving the nature, geography, architecture, history, folk culture and other aspects. This paper aims to apply the Conceptual Blending Theory to analyze the process of Chinese-English translation of tourism text in order to reveal the translator's psychological cognitive model in the translation process. That is to say, the translator first cross-maps the input spaces onto the generic spaces, through composition, completion and elaboration, generates new meanings in the translated text space, which are finally converted into the target linguistic symbols.