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Abstract

Duetoitswidedisseminationandconvenientproductionmethods,

documentarieshavebecomeanimportantmediumforstoringanddisseminating

informationintoday’ssociety.Althoughdocumentarysubtitletranslationbelongsto

audiovisualtranslation,italsohasitsownpeculiarityandcomplexity,whichpays

moreattentiontoinformationexchangeandculturaldissemination.Therefore,

studyingsubtitletranslationpurelyfromalinguisticperspectivehasobvious

limitations.Previousstudieshavemainlyviewedsubtitletranslationasaprocessof

mutualconversionbetweensourcelanguageandtargetlanguage,whileneglecting

otherfactorsintheprocessofinformationtransmissionandregardingthedynamic

processofinformationtransmissionasastaticclosedtwo-levelsystem.However,

fromtheperspectiveofcommunicationstudies,translation,asacross-cultural

communicationactivity,hasaholisticanddynamicnatureaseachelementinthe

processisinterrelatedandinterdependent.Thestudyofdocumentarysubtitle

translationfromtheperspectiveofcommunicationstudiescanprovideabroaderand

moreeffectiveperspectiveforsubtitletranslationpracticeandresearch.

AsadocumentaryabouttraditionalChinesemedicineculture,TheTaleof

ChineseMedicinetakes“Chineseherbalmedicine”asawindowtodisseminate

traditionalknowledgeandshowcasethedepthofChineseculture.Thisreporttakes

thepracticeofChinese-EnglishsubtitletranslationforTheTaleofChineseMedicine

asacasestudy.Itanalyzespotentialobstaclesinthetranslationprocessfromthe

perspectiveofcommunicationstudies,usingLasswell’s5Wtheoryasaframework,

andproposescorrespondingtranslationstrategiesandmethods.The5Wtheoryinfers

tothebasicprocessandfiveessentialelementsofcommunicationstudies,namely

“Who”,“SayWhat”,“InWhichChannel”,“ToWhom”,and“WithWhatEffect