The paper analyzes the English retranslation of The Classic on Tea from the perspective of cultural awareness and finds some misinterpretations and omissions of Chinese culture appeared in the translations of foreign ...The paper analyzes the English retranslation of The Classic on Tea from the perspective of cultural awareness and finds some misinterpretations and omissions of Chinese culture appeared in the translations of foreign scholars.Domestic translators have a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and their retranslations embody the increasing cultural awareness of the source language culture,mainly in seeking conceptual equivalence rather than lexical equivalence,choosing the most suitable translation according to the textual and cultural context,and focusing on cultural facsimile and readers’awareness.This study will help better spread the Chinese tea culture and help Chinese culture go global.展开更多
The jury system is an important legal system within the common law system. At present, the English term “jury” is generally translated as “陪审团” and “陪审” in Chinese. The Chinese translations “陪审团” and ...The jury system is an important legal system within the common law system. At present, the English term “jury” is generally translated as “陪审团” and “陪审” in Chinese. The Chinese translations “陪审团” and “陪审” fail to accurately translate the essential features of this system, and the true implications of the term and are, on the contrary, quite misleading. There are two types of juries： the jury determining criminal guilt or innocence and the jury deciding whether someone should be accused. Both types of juries play leading roles in the democratic legal system and legal procedure. Neither type of jury has anything to do with “陪” or “审”, therefore, the translation “陪审” is totally erroneous. Re-translation of the term ＂jury＂ is necessary. In accordance with its true implications and functions, “jury” can be translated as “决认团” and “决认”. The word stem of the Chinese translations of the term group in the jury system should be “决认”. By analogy, such terms as （a） “jury system”, （b） “juror/juryperson/juryman”, （c） “jurywoman”, （d） “jury duty” and （e） “jury box” should be translated respectively as （a）“决认制度”, （b）“决认员”, （c）“女决认员”, （d）“决认责任” and （e）“决认席”. The Chinese translation “决认” is fully justified to replace “陪审”.展开更多
Literary stylistics,based on linguistics and literary criticism has developed into a new discipline,which is one importantmethod to analyze the fiction translation.The study on retranslation in the perspective of lite...Literary stylistics,based on linguistics and literary criticism has developed into a new discipline,which is one importantmethod to analyze the fiction translation.The study on retranslation in the perspective of literary stylistics is new.The Dead is thefinal and best-known story of Dubliners.This paper aims to analyze three Chinese versions of The Dead in the perspective of liter-ary stylistics in order to test the validity of retranslation hypothesis.展开更多
This essay argues that translations are shaped by the needs and expectations of the target culture,and given that aesthetic and cultural norms change over time,there is a constant need for retranslations.The creative ...This essay argues that translations are shaped by the needs and expectations of the target culture,and given that aesthetic and cultural norms change over time,there is a constant need for retranslations.The creative translation work of classicists such as Anne Carson and Josephine Balmer serves to illustrate the divergency of translation practice where there is no reliable source version.Two examples further explore how ancient texts are reconfigured:Cieran Carson’s rending of the Irish epic The Tain and Sioned Davies’s version of the Welsh epic The Mabinogion.Translators today have more freedom to exercise their own creativity as we recognize the unreliability of source texts that have undergone countless changes over time.展开更多
This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung&...This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung's retranslation is extremely close to Yangs' with some changes only in the first two chapters. In this case, paratexts to Cheung Yikman's version covered up the behaviour of plagiarism, which is different from Lawrence Venuti's discussion of paratexts' function in his 2004 essay as "an immediate form of intertextuality" and "make[s] explicit the competing interpretation". This article examines the unreliability of paratexts in intralingual translation, based on a case in English translations of San Guo Yan Yi: Cheung Yik-man's translation of "The Battle of the Red Cliff" excerpted from the novel.展开更多
基金USST Construction Project of English-taught Courses for International Students in 2024Key Course Construction Project in Universities of Shanghai in 2024USST Teaching Achievement Award(postgraduate)Cultivation Project in 2024.
文摘The paper analyzes the English retranslation of The Classic on Tea from the perspective of cultural awareness and finds some misinterpretations and omissions of Chinese culture appeared in the translations of foreign scholars.Domestic translators have a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and their retranslations embody the increasing cultural awareness of the source language culture,mainly in seeking conceptual equivalence rather than lexical equivalence,choosing the most suitable translation according to the textual and cultural context,and focusing on cultural facsimile and readers’awareness.This study will help better spread the Chinese tea culture and help Chinese culture go global.
文摘The jury system is an important legal system within the common law system. At present, the English term “jury” is generally translated as “陪审团” and “陪审” in Chinese. The Chinese translations “陪审团” and “陪审” fail to accurately translate the essential features of this system, and the true implications of the term and are, on the contrary, quite misleading. There are two types of juries： the jury determining criminal guilt or innocence and the jury deciding whether someone should be accused. Both types of juries play leading roles in the democratic legal system and legal procedure. Neither type of jury has anything to do with “陪” or “审”, therefore, the translation “陪审” is totally erroneous. Re-translation of the term ＂jury＂ is necessary. In accordance with its true implications and functions, “jury” can be translated as “决认团” and “决认”. The word stem of the Chinese translations of the term group in the jury system should be “决认”. By analogy, such terms as （a） “jury system”, （b） “juror/juryperson/juryman”, （c） “jurywoman”, （d） “jury duty” and （e） “jury box” should be translated respectively as （a）“决认制度”, （b）“决认员”, （c）“女决认员”, （d）“决认责任” and （e）“决认席”. The Chinese translation “决认” is fully justified to replace “陪审”.
文摘Literary stylistics,based on linguistics and literary criticism has developed into a new discipline,which is one importantmethod to analyze the fiction translation.The study on retranslation in the perspective of literary stylistics is new.The Dead is thefinal and best-known story of Dubliners.This paper aims to analyze three Chinese versions of The Dead in the perspective of liter-ary stylistics in order to test the validity of retranslation hypothesis.
文摘This essay argues that translations are shaped by the needs and expectations of the target culture,and given that aesthetic and cultural norms change over time,there is a constant need for retranslations.The creative translation work of classicists such as Anne Carson and Josephine Balmer serves to illustrate the divergency of translation practice where there is no reliable source version.Two examples further explore how ancient texts are reconfigured:Cieran Carson’s rending of the Irish epic The Tain and Sioned Davies’s version of the Welsh epic The Mabinogion.Translators today have more freedom to exercise their own creativity as we recognize the unreliability of source texts that have undergone countless changes over time.
基金part of the research project titled "The English Translations of San Guo Yan Yi"(18CYY012),funded by the National Social Science Fund of China
文摘This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung's retranslation is extremely close to Yangs' with some changes only in the first two chapters. In this case, paratexts to Cheung Yikman's version covered up the behaviour of plagiarism, which is different from Lawrence Venuti's discussion of paratexts' function in his 2004 essay as "an immediate form of intertextuality" and "make[s] explicit the competing interpretation". This article examines the unreliability of paratexts in intralingual translation, based on a case in English translations of San Guo Yan Yi: Cheung Yik-man's translation of "The Battle of the Red Cliff" excerpted from the novel.
