Public signs nowadays can be seen everywhere and applied in various public areas, the purpose of which is to provide some necessary indicative information for the international tourists or workers, facilitate their life and work, and also attract foreign investments. However, not all the bilingual public signs are translated appropriately, the quality of current translation is not very satisfactory owing to some internal and external reasons, thus the consequence of this inappropriate language using in public signs brought about the so-called Chinglish phenomenon, Chinglish is that misshapen, hybrid language that is neither English nor Chinese but can be described as English with Chinese characteristics, usually is unintelligible to the foreigners, which hinders the development of translation for communicating with foreigners. The thesis mainly concerns the causes of the emergence of Chinglish public signs which will be discussed from the cultural and linguistic dimensions in terms of various examples, the rest of the content will talk about the normal standard of Chinese-English sign language translation for eliminating Chinglish and attaining an unimpeded and efficient translation.
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Luyao Han (2018) studied this question.