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Ideology In Translating Indonesian Political News Headlines From Indonesian To English: A Cda Study Of Antara, Ferina A. Lestari, Haru Deliana Dewi Jul 2026

Ideology In Translating Indonesian Political News Headlines From Indonesian To English: A Cda Study Of Antara, Ferina A. Lestari, Haru Deliana Dewi

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

This study examines how ideology is constructed in the translation of Indonesian political news headlines into English by ANTARA News Agency. Moving beyond the notion of translation as mere equivalence, it conceptualizes headline translation as a process of discursive recontextualization shaped by institutional practices and audience design. Using a qualitative comparative approach, the study analyses 20 pairs of Indonesian English political headlines. The analysis implied Fairclough’s (1995) three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework. The dimensional focusing on textual features, discourse practice, and social practice. The findings reveal transformations, including omission of culturally specific details, addition of evaluative elements, lexical reframing, …


From Voice To Noise: Accented Speech, Constructed Languages, And Subtitling Practices As Markers Of Difference, Alice Alonso Limongi Jan 2026

From Voice To Noise: Accented Speech, Constructed Languages, And Subtitling Practices As Markers Of Difference, Alice Alonso Limongi

Course Work

This monograph explores three main strategies of vocal exotification in Anglophone film: representations of accented speech, inclusion of constructed languages, and non-subtitling of snippets of other languages. Using Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding framework, I approach these practices as rhetorical devices that both construct and are constructed by the complexity of our social landscapes. Portrayals of accented speech, constructed languages, and subtitling practices form a gradient of abstraction, where the denotative meaning of words gradually loses importance to the sonic characteristics of the voice. Combining broader cultural scholarship from Edward Said, sound studies writings on power and language from Nina Sun Eidsheim …


Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray Nov 2025

Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study investigates the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu (G 22). The study focuses on two objectives: the first objective is to describe the plant folk taxonomy in Chasu and the second objective is to determine the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu. Data were collected from rural villages in Same and Mwanga districts by using free listing, field interviews (jungle-walk-and-identify), and written texts containing Chasu plant names. The findings reveal that Chasu folk taxonomy reflects different ethnobotanical categories; including a unique beginner which is mmea/mimea ‘plant(s)’, and three life …


Issues In Translating Tarifit Tales, Hanan Bennoudi Aug 2021

Issues In Translating Tarifit Tales, Hanan Bennoudi

Dirassat

Oral literature is a sold as man; it has existed in the Amazigh language for many centuries. Among the innumerable genres of oral literature, folktales( Tinfasin Tarifit) remain the most important because they have played an important role in touching the heart of our collective being and permitted to people, young and old, to shift beyond the boundaries of reality. However, Tarifit tales have remained terrain cognita to this day because they were shutdown and stuffed in the family and village context.


Pampanitikang Gawain Ang Pagsasalin, Michael M. Coroza Jan 2018

Pampanitikang Gawain Ang Pagsasalin, Michael M. Coroza

Filipino Faculty Publications

Binibigyang-diin sa maikling pagtalakay na ito na ang pagsasaling pampanitikan ay isang pampanitikang gawain. Kaugnay kung hindi man tunay na isang sangay ng mga araling pampanitikan ang pagsasalin. Lampas sa tumbasan ng mga salita o parirala, higit sa paghanap ng literal na kahulugan o praktikal na aral ng teksto, ang pampanitikang pagsasalin ay nakatuon sa pagkapanitikan ng panitikan. Ito ang dahilan kung bakit para kay Clifford E. Landers ay mahirap ipatanggap o ipaunawa sa maraming nasa larang ng pragmatikong pagsasalin ang pagsasaling pampanitikan. Hindi ang ibig sabihin lamang ang mahalaga, madalas na mas mahalaga pa ang paraan ng pagsasabi. Wika …


Dorothy Moser Medlin Papers - Accession 1049, Dorothy Moser Medlin Jan 2018

Dorothy Moser Medlin Papers - Accession 1049, Dorothy Moser Medlin

Manuscript Collection

(The Dorothy Moser Medlin Papers are currently in processing.)

This collection contains most of the records of Dorothy Medlin’s work and correspondence and also includes reference materials, notes, microfilm, photographic negatives related both to her professional and personal life. Additions include a FLES Handbook, co-authored by Dorothy Medlin and a decorative mirror belonging to Dorothy Medlin.

Major series in this collection include: some original 18th century writings and ephemera and primary source material of André Morellet, extensive collection of secondary material on André Morellet's writings and translations, Winthrop related files, literary manuscripts and notes by Dorothy Medlin (1966-2011), copies …


Cultural Re-Presentation And Translation : Chinese And English Anthologies Of Tang Poetry, Chi Man, Cecilia Chan Oct 2017

Cultural Re-Presentation And Translation : Chinese And English Anthologies Of Tang Poetry, Chi Man, Cecilia Chan

Lingnan Theses

Due to its unique prestige, classical Chinese poetry written during the Tang dynasty is often anthologised. These anthologies serve various purposes (e.g. recreational, educational, or both), but they are generally expected to feature works high in aesthetic value, and represent the culture wherein they are produced. While the functions of anthologies are seldom contested, representations of Tang poetry in anthologies have many different manifestations.

Using China’s most famous anthology, Tangshi sanbaishou 唐詩三百首, as an opening case study, research shows that within its home culture, the anthologising of Tang poetry has a long history by itself, and anthologists negotiate between ideological …


两次鸦片战争期间中英交涉中口译者的主体性和能动性 (1840-1842,1856-1860), Zhen Yuan Aug 2017

两次鸦片战争期间中英交涉中口译者的主体性和能动性 (1840-1842,1856-1860), Zhen Yuan

Lingnan Theses

两次鸦片战争期间(1840-1842,1856-1860),中英两国正式开启了官方交涉活动与外交谈判。在这些交涉活动中,双方口译者均发挥了重要作用,展现了特有的主体性和能动性。本文拟对当时较具代表性的三位口译者进行个案研究,他们分别是中国译者鲍鹏、黄仲畬和英国译者马儒翰。笔者通过挖掘相关的一手、二手资料,并对它们进行缜密的文本分析,试图对三位译者在各自的外交口译中所体现的主体性和能动性作出详尽的考证和论述。本文得出的结论是:在两次鸦片战争的特殊情境中,口译者往往背离“忠实性”原则:有的受到自身生活或工作经历之影响,在口译活动中常带入自己的主观想法,独立做出决定,此可谓口译者主体性的表现形式;有的采取跨界策略,在交涉双方不同立场和态度之间游移,以达到斡旋和协调的目的,充分体现了口译者的能动性。


Notes On Contributors Feb 2017

Notes On Contributors

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No abstract provided.


Performability And Translation : A Case Study Of The Production And Reception Of Ying Ruocheng’S Translations, Yichen Yang Aug 2016

Performability And Translation : A Case Study Of The Production And Reception Of Ying Ruocheng’S Translations, Yichen Yang

Lingnan Theses

The active scholarly contribution made by practitioners of theatre translation in the past decades has turned the research area into what is now considered a burgeoning field. Despite recent developments, it seems that performability, a long-discussed yet controversial concept in the study of theatre translation, would remain part of the practitioners’ discourse. Based on a historical survey of the production and reception of the translations of Anglo-American plays by Chinese actor-director Ying Ruocheng (1929-2003) in and around the 1980s, this study explores how the performability, or theatrical potential, of a translated playtext is constructed through the negotiation between/among the norms …


The Role Of Translation In The Nobel Prize In Literature : A Case Study Of Howard Goldblatt's Translations Of Mo Yan's Works, Yau Wun Yim Mar 2016

The Role Of Translation In The Nobel Prize In Literature : A Case Study Of Howard Goldblatt's Translations Of Mo Yan's Works, Yau Wun Yim

Lingnan Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of the translator and translation in the Nobel Prize in Literature through an illustration of the case of Howard Goldblatt’s translations of Mo Yan’s works.

As the most significant international literary prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature is well discussed in media. However, insufficiently detailed attention has been given to the role of translation in the Prize. In many cases, the works that the Nobel judges evaluate are in fact translations, not the prize winner’s own words. Despite the importance of translation in the selection process, no research has ever …


Why Get Lost In Translation? On The English Translations Of Wen Yiduo's Poems, Choi Yung Ng Aug 2015

Why Get Lost In Translation? On The English Translations Of Wen Yiduo's Poems, Choi Yung Ng

Lingnan Theses

The debate over the translatability of poetry has been a long-standing issue for decades. Relatively few discussions, however, have focused on the concrete reasons of poetry being translatable (or untranslatable). Moving beyond traditional ways of elucidating the matter through theoretical argument, this study aims to investigate the question of poetry translation in a more solid, empirical manner by looking into linguistic and language-based aesthetic differences between Chinese and English, in particular their prosodic features and capacities. Part One seeks to answer the question “Why does poetry get lost in translation?” from a linguistic and language-based aesthetic perspective, using the English …


Philology, Anthropology And Poetry In Arthur Waley's Translation Of The Shijing, Qingyang Lin Mar 2015

Philology, Anthropology And Poetry In Arthur Waley's Translation Of The Shijing, Qingyang Lin

Lingnan Theses

The topic of my thesis is Arthur Waley and his translation of the Shijing, or The Book of Songs (1937), as Waley entitled it. The Book of Songs is especially noted for its philological ingenuity, anthropological insight and poetic appeal; during my preliminary research I discovered that there exists an interesting interplay between these three aspects of this translation. In this thesis, I hope to examine the textual and thematic hermeneutics of The Book of Songs.

Waley did not read the Shijing as a scriptural text inscribed with sagely intention and authority; rather, he returned it to its folkloric origin, …


Specters Of Kurdish Nationalism: Governmentality And Counterinsurgent Translation In Turkey, Nicholas S. Glastonbury Jan 2015

Specters Of Kurdish Nationalism: Governmentality And Counterinsurgent Translation In Turkey, Nicholas S. Glastonbury

Publications and Research

This essay examines translations of the Kurdish epic poem Mem û Zîn into Turkish, tracing the logics behind these state-sponsored translations and examining how acts of translation are also efforts to regulate, translate, and erase Kurdish subjectivities. I argue that the state instrumentalizes Mem û Zîn’s potent nationalist currency in order to disarm present and future claims of Kurdish national autonomy. Using translation as a counterinsurgent governmental tool, the state attempts to domesticate Kurdish nationalist discourses even as it reproduces them, thereby transforming Kurdish nationalism into a specter of itself. Attending to this specter, however, allows us to see how …


Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel Dec 2014

Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel

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Notes by Andrew Gudgel on the translation of three Chinese poems into English.


Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel Dec 2014

Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.


First Mill (Excerpts) By René Char, Nancy Naomi N. Carlson Dec 2014

First Mill (Excerpts) By René Char, Nancy Naomi N. Carlson

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Translated from the French with commentary by Nancy Naomi Carlson.


The Fisherman By Anonymous, Luke J. Chambers Dec 2014

The Fisherman By Anonymous, Luke J. Chambers

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Translated from the Old French with commentary by Luke Chambers.


Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano Dec 2014

Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.


A Bath And Always By Khaled Abdallah, Nicholas Swett Dec 2014

A Bath And Always By Khaled Abdallah, Nicholas Swett

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Translated from the Arabic with commentary by Nicholas Swett.


The Banyan Tree, Untitled, To --, A Dried Flower--For Someone, Palace-Cave Mountain, And Nanmu Forest By Cai Qijiao, Edward A. Morin Dec 2014

The Banyan Tree, Untitled, To --, A Dried Flower--For Someone, Palace-Cave Mountain, And Nanmu Forest By Cai Qijiao, Edward A. Morin

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Translated from the Chinese with commentary by Edward Morin, Dennis Ding, and Fang Dai.


Interferensi Bahasa Indonesia Ke Dalam Bahasa Inggris Pada Abstrak Jurnal Ilmiah, Any Budiarti Feb 2013

Interferensi Bahasa Indonesia Ke Dalam Bahasa Inggris Pada Abstrak Jurnal Ilmiah, Any Budiarti

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

This research aims not only to discuss the interference of the Indonesian language into English as reflected in scientific journal abstracts but also to describe the types of such interference. Thirteen scientific journals were examined in this study. The method applied was descriptive, employing distributional and similarity analyses. The data were collected from scientific journal abstracts published between 2003 and 2008. The results indicate three types of interference: morphological, syntactic, and semantic. Morphological interference occurs in verb forms for the third person singular, plural forms, and possessives. Syntactic interference includes ill-formed phrases, passive voice constructions, parallelism errors, and the omission …


Domestikasi Ideologi Dalam Penerjemahan Injil: Inggris-Bali, Frans I Made Brata Aug 2011

Domestikasi Ideologi Dalam Penerjemahan Injil: Inggris-Bali, Frans I Made Brata

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

The Bible’s translator expects his translation to be not only accurate, but also acceptable in accordance with the norms and cultural values of its readers. This study aims to describe the domesticating ideology in translation. Tu–Vous Theory combined with Attitude, as part of Appraisal Theory in Systemic Functional Linguistics, is used to investigate how words should be used. Dynamic Equivalence Theory is utilized to describe word usage in society. A descriptive qualitative approach in determining two principal orientations of translation techniques, methods, and ideologies was applied in analyzing the data. Questionnaires containing sentences with English terms of address in Luke’s …


Hambatan Penerjemahan Teks Bahasa Arab Ke Dalam Bahasa Indonesia: Pengalaman Mahasiswa Sastra Arab Universitas Negeri Malang, Irhamni Irhamni Aug 2011

Hambatan Penerjemahan Teks Bahasa Arab Ke Dalam Bahasa Indonesia: Pengalaman Mahasiswa Sastra Arab Universitas Negeri Malang, Irhamni Irhamni

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

This paper is intended to describe the results of a study focusing on students’ translation problems in translating Arabic texts into Indonesian. The problems result from students’ understanding and retelling (re-expressing) the results of that understanding during the translation process. In this study, the researcher applies a descriptive qualitative method. The results show that students’ problems in translation are closely related to (1) their understanding of linguistic and non-linguistic structures, and (2) their difficulties in retelling (re-expressing) the results of their reading regarding linguistic and non-linguistic issues.


Konsep Skopos Dan Aspek Fungsionalnya Dalam Penerjemahan, Masduki Masduki Aug 2011

Konsep Skopos Dan Aspek Fungsionalnya Dalam Penerjemahan, Masduki Masduki

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

It is often said that Skopos theory has abolished the position of the source text. Nevertheless, translators still have to translate source texts, and to do this, they must identify translation units and decide what to do with them in the translation process. The same applies to translation description and criticism or even quality assessment. In order to compare source and target texts and achieve a fair judgment of a translation, translators need the communicative function of the translation unit. This article deals with the basic concept of Skopos and the functional aspects that come into play both in translation …


翻译研究中的后殖民女性主义视角 : 自我反思的立场, Lijuan Chen Jan 2011

翻译研究中的后殖民女性主义视角 : 自我反思的立场, Lijuan Chen

Lingnan Theses

女性主义和后殖民理论已于20 世纪80 年代介入翻译研究,并成为“效忠 取向”的翻译研究中的两大流派。但是,主流女性主义翻译研究和主流后殖民 翻译研究在缺乏自我反思立场的同时,在很大程度上分别体现了对种族维度和 性别维度的漠视,从而忽视了一些重要的研究问题。尽管已有极少数学者,从 结合性别和种族的后殖民女性主义视角看待了有关翻译现象,她们并没有考虑 将后殖民女性主义理论体系性地纳入翻译研究,同时也在很大程度上没有体现 自我反思。有鉴于此,本研究一方面以提出研究问题的方式,尝试体系性地将 后殖民女性主义理论纳入翻译研究,另一方面则以个案研究的方式,尝试如何 进行自我反思的后殖民女性主义翻译研究,并审视在很大程度上未被其他后殖 民女性主义学者所具体分析过的翻译现象。

在从后殖民女性主义视角提出一系列翻译研究问题之后,本研究继而选择 其中的两个问题作为个案研究对象,即考察西方女性主义出版社在出版第三世 界女性文本方面的翻译选材政治,以及西方女译者在处理第三世界女性主义文 本方面的翻译政治。在有关后殖民女性主义观点的启发下,以及在保持自我反 思立场的同时,本研究首先审视了美国女性主义出版社Aunt Lute Books 以及英 国女性主义出版社Virago Press,在翻译出版中国女性文本方面所体现的选材特 点。接着,本研究考察了美国白人女译者,在处理美籍华裔女作家严歌苓所著 《扶桑》中体现道家思想和佛教内涵的严歌苓式女性主义方面,所采用的翻译 方式。本研究表明,西方女性主义的话语殖民,西方女性主义与第三世界女性 主义之间及其背后文化理据之间的权力差异,以及相关主体所具有的白人女性 身份,以颇为复杂的形式,体现于涉及第三世界女性文本的翻译选材和翻译方 式。此外,通过上述讨论,本研究也展示了如何进行自我反思的后殖民女性主 义翻译研究,并凸显自我反思的翻译研究话语的内部冲突和暧昧之处。


译者是谁? : 译者的身份认同与翻译研究, Wenjing Li Jan 2011

译者是谁? : 译者的身份认同与翻译研究, Wenjing Li

Lingnan Theses

近年来翻译研究中的重要话题,如文化翻译、后殖民、女性主义、意识形 态、翻译的主体性和主体间性等,或多或少都与译者身份及其认同的问题有着 直接或间接的关联。身份的概念在翻译研究中虽被一再提及,却仍缺乏清晰的界定,有待深入探讨。

通过借鉴并整合社会心理学有关身份理论的假设和分析,本文在梳理评论相关研究成果的基础上对译者身份进行动态分析,由此提出译者身份的三种类型,即角色身份、群体身份和个人身份。本文首先从社会角色入手探讨译者的 角色身份和角色期待与阐释,以及翻译角色间的互动对话等相关问题,提出翻译主体间的角色互动以内部多重对话为主要形式,译者则通过角色扮演达成内部对话。随后,本文以性别身份为例探讨译者的群体身份,运用身份选择理论讨论在女性主义、性别与翻译结合的过程中出现的译者性别身份的不同表现形式,并特别考察了译者在翻译活动中的性别表演行为。再者,本文从译者主体创造性的角度出发讨论译者个人身份,以从事翻译活动的作家为例,系统阐述 了译者在再创作中表现出的与原作者之间创作与模仿的杂合冲突。随后,本文的重点转移至考察译者文化认同与民族国家的集体身份在翻译中的重新建构之间的关系,通过案例分析阐释译者在译文中表现出提升自我文化身份的倾向, 说明集体身份的改写与译者的个体认同的密切关系。此外,译者身份的社会期待与个体内化、身份杂合、多重身份的承诺和选择、身份表演、角色对话等一 系列相关问题本文亦有所涉及。

除了借鉴和改造社会心理学的身份理论并应用于翻译研究,本文还进行了大量的实证研究,包括D.H.Lawrence 的《狐》的三个中文译本的平行对比,美籍华裔作家谭恩美的《沉没之鱼》的中文译写现象和文本分析,《无题的风景》英译的译者注释分析,以及互联网自发翻译现象分析等,不仅作为对本文所提论点的有力支撑,同时还有助于扩展、深化和强化相关的理论话语。


形变与值变 : 论文学陌生化语言的翻译, Yongsui Peng Jan 2011

形变与值变 : 论文学陌生化语言的翻译, Yongsui Peng

Lingnan Theses

“陌生化”(defamiliarization) 理论是二十世纪初俄国形式主义者Viktor Shklovskij 所提出。根据该理论,文学文本包含作者出于文学动因而扭曲常规语 言所致的偏离语言,这种语言被称为陌生化语言。陌生化语言除具有特殊文体效果外,还被用来深化文本的社会文化主题意义,历来是译者和翻译研究者关注 的对象。然而,由于受源语导向对等论和形式主义美学的束缚,以往研究者讨论文学陌生化语言翻译时带有约简和片面的倾向。他们只重形式而轻视或忽视 陌生化语言的文化意义,忽视目的语文本文化语境的特殊性,以致认为译者应该且可以通过“偏离对偏离”仿造陌生化形式、实现文学性对等。鉴于此,本研究深入分析跨文化语境下两种语言间的形式差异和文化意识形态差异对陌生 化语言翻译的影响,揭示从“偏离对偏离”到“陌生化形式仿造”再到“文学 性对等”这一推导的粗疏和内在矛盾,以此来批驳文学陌生化语言翻译就是要 仿造形式、再现文学性的观念。在此基础上,本文探讨了文学陌生化语言的几种翻译策略,提出这些策略并非转达文学性或文化意义,而是导致交互文化杂合,生成交互文化意识形态。

除绪论和结论外,全文共六章。第一章对陌生化理论作了整体介绍,第二 章主要关注有关源陌生化语言的阐释学,第三章着重讨论语言间的形式差异和目的语文本语境对仿造陌生化形式的制约,第四章和第五章探讨文化差异对源 陌生化语言翻译的影响以及不同翻译策略的文化意义生产,第六章讨论语言文 化差异使源陌生化语言翻译成为杂合,生产交互文化意识形态。本研究以理论 探究为主,以实例阐明为辅,采用多学科相融合 (multidisciplinary) 的研究方法,借鉴了英汉对比、文学理论、符号学和文体学等学科概念和/或理论原则。


翻译研究的对话性路径 : 巴赫金思想与翻译研究, Bo Li Jan 2008

翻译研究的对话性路径 : 巴赫金思想与翻译研究, Bo Li

Lingnan Theses

翻译研究已经成为一门独立的学科,研究领域逐渐扩大,研究方法也在不 断完善;与此同时,巴赫金研究在世界范围内,也吸引了越来越多的目光和注 意力,为语言学、文学、文化研究、哲学等相关或相邻学科提供了丰富的理论 资源。在这样一个大背景下,本项研究采取了跨学科的研究模式,概念分析与个案研究相结合,力图说明巴赫金思想对翻译研究的适用性,在二者之间寻找理论挪用的契合点。

本文在回顾以往研究的基础上,提出了新的研究问题和假设,充分借鉴巴赫金思想,分析和解释与翻译相关的诸多问题和现象。本文提出从基于表述的主体间言语交际来看翻译过程,从杂语的角度来分析原文和译文,从声音的角 度来看译者的叙述在场及其主体性实现,从对话的角度来看翻译中涉及主体之间的主体间性,从声音和杂语的角度来思考翻译与身份认同的问题,从而对于我们理解翻译过程的实质、理解翻译过程的艰难、理解翻译中译者的主体性与翻译中的主体间性、理解翻译与身份认同的关系等等,试图提供可行的分析模 式和有意义的思考路径。在这个意义上来说,本项研究对于推进翻译研究具有一定的理论贡献。同时,本文借助文学翻译、电影字幕翻译等实际个案 (特别是台湾作家王祯和的长篇小说《玫瑰玫瑰我爱你》英语译本),印证本文提出的分析模式的有效性和可行性。


Context, Translator And History : A Study Of Three Translations Of Luotuo Xiangzi In The Usa, Ying Jun Li Jan 2007

Context, Translator And History : A Study Of Three Translations Of Luotuo Xiangzi In The Usa, Ying Jun Li

Lingnan Theses

Three different English translations of Lao She’s (老舍) Luotuo Xiangzi (骆驼祥子) were marketed in the USA from 1945 to 2005. What are the major historical occurrences and trends from the late 19th to the early 21st century that define the contexts of these translations? Beginning with an analysis of the stylistic features of each translation, the present study explores how each of the three translators and the corresponding historical context impacted on the production of the translated text, its marketing orientation and its reception in the USA.

With a comparison of the three translated texts and their meta-textual features, the …