scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Novel Translation under Feminist Translation Theory: A Case Study of the Two Chinese Versions of To the Lighthouse

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 718
Author(s):  
Qing Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Gender Consciousness

With the increasing relevance of feminism and translation studies, how to embody female discourse in translation has become an important issue in feminist translation and in reflecting the translator’s subjectivity. Based on the feminist translation theory, this study will explore how female translators use translation strategies and methods to highlight female discourse through a comparative analysis of the two Chinese versions of To the Lighthouse, aiming to reveal the differences between female’s translation and male’s as a result of their gender consciousness, thus bringing beneficial inspiration to translation studies and translation work.

scholarly journals Rendering stylistically marked units in the novel Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan: a comparative study

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-202
Author(s):  
Mariia Onyshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Expressive Meaning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Colloquial Style

The study analyzes lexemes and word combinations of colloquial style, slang and low colloquial language, performs their comparative analysis at word level, looks into the transformational patterns that the structures undergo during literary translation into English and Russian, and discusses the advantages and flaws of the applied translation strategies through suggesting adequate translation solutions. In the article, the argument is made that the translation strategies of substandard lexis reflect the interdisciplinary nature of expressive meaning and connotation which can be conveyed differently through various language levels during literary translation.

Exploring Cultural Transmission and Translation Strategies in the Perspective of Functionalist Approaches: A case study of the two English versions of Hongloumeng

Babel ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-487
Author(s):  
Wang Yuefang
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Translation Strategies

This paper attempts to apply the functionalist approaches to a comparative study of the two English versions of Hongloumeng in terms of the translation of culture-specific items. The author tries to explore the important role the translation skopos and translation brief play in the choice of translation strategies and offers some comments on the legitimacy of these strategies employed. The analysis of the translation of culture-specific items is conducted in the following five subcultures: ecology, material culture, social culture, religious culture and linguistic culture. Through both a qualitative analysis and quantitative data in which 190 samples covering five cultural categories are collected randomly from the first 80 chapters, the research reveals that the two translators of Hongloumeng employ different strategies in most cases, namely, the Yangs mostly adopt foreignization in order to introduce the Chinese cultural heritage, while Hawkes employs domestication with a purpose of reaching out to the target reader. Résumé Cet article cherche a appliquer les approches fonctionnalistes a une etude comparative des deux versions anglaises de Hongloumeng pour ce qui concerne la traduction d’elements specifiques a la culture. L’ auteure cherche a explorer le role important que le skopos et le briefing de la traduction jouent dans le choix des strategies traductionnelles et enonce certains commentaires sur la legitimite de ces strategies utilisees. L’ analyse de la traduction d’elements specifiques a la culture est menee dans les cinq souscultures suivantes : ecologie, culture materielle, culture sociale, culture religieuse et culture linguistique. Grace a une analyse qualitative et a des donnees quantitatives dans lesquelles 190 echantillons couvrant cinq categories culturelles sont tires au hasard des 80 premiers chapitres, la recherche revele que les deux traducteurs de Hongloumeng emploient des strategies differentes dans la plupart des cas : les Yang adoptent le plus souvent une etrangeisation pour presenter l’heritage culturel chinois alors que Hawkes a recours a une domestication pour etablir un contact avec le lecteur cible.

scholarly journals TRANSLATING PROPER NAMES IN A LITERARY TEXT: A CASE OF HARRY POTTER NOVEL IN VIETNAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trieu Thu Hang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Research Purpose ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Frame

Translating literary proper names is regarded as one of the challenging but inspiring issues in the field of Translation Studies. Given this context, the present paper aims to analyze the strategies undertaken by the translator when rendering proper names from the English literary text “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (2014) into its Vietnamese translation “Harry Potter và Hòn đá phù thuỷ” (2016). To fulfill the research purpose, a descriptive and comparative analysis was made between the source and target text. The analysis of translation strategies was grounded on the theoretical frame of Davis (2003). The findings reveal that the translator adopted the strategy of preservation for most of the proper names in the chosen literary text. Several recommendations for translating proper names in the literary texts are finally drawn out.

scholarly journals Landscape in Literary Translation: A Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Lahiani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Communicative Function

Translating concepts of setting can be challenging when their cultural, historical, and geographic contexts are remote from the translator’s experience. Landscape is an essential factor that reveals a great deal of the culture of pre-Islamic Arabia, which is distant in place, historical framework, and literary tradition from its translators. This article examines the importance of a translator’s awareness of the communicative function of source text references to landscape to adopt appropriate translation strategies. The article presents a case study of a verse line alongside a corpus of nineteen English and French translations. The source text, the Mu‘allaqa of Imru’ al-Qays, names three mountains in Arabia, and space and distance are core themes in the verse line. Comparison is both synchronic and diachronic: at the same time that every translation is compared to the source text, it is also compared to other translations. Prose translations are also examined separately from verse translations, with cross-references in both directions. The translators who adopted source-text-oriented strategies missed communicative clues regarding the setting. However, those who endorsed target-text oriented strategies produced effective and adequate translation.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Shifts in English Translations of The Quran: A Case Study on “Yusuf” Chapter

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Rezvani ◽  
Peyman Nouraey
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Different Types ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Level Shifts ◽  
Descriptive Theories

Long since Translation Studies emerged as a nascent academic discipline, it has seen a considerable number of descriptive theories and models, among which, Catford’s (1965) translation ‘shift’ approach has garnered particular attention within the realm of translational comparative studies. Quranic texts have constantly been the center of attention, as the Quran has established itself as the most famous and sublime text in Arabic. As such, the present comparative study aimed at investigating the frequencies of different types of translation shifts occurring in translations form Arabic into English drawing on Catford’s (1956) shift typology. To this end, seven translations of the first thirty verses of the Chapter ‘Yusuf’ rendered by Sarwar, Arberry, Irring, Pickthall, Saffarzade, Shakir and Yusef Ali were selected to be studied. First, each element was compared for any probable shift(s). Then, the Chi-square procedure was applied in order to establish the existence of any statistically significant differences in shift frequencies. The results indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between five types of shifts. The results also revealed that the most frequent translation shifts from Arabic into Persian were Unit shifts and Level shifts with a mean of 83 and 49 respectively.

Translating political ideology

Babel ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Guangjun ◽  
Zhang Huanyao
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Headlines

Ideology is a major issue in Translation Studies. With a case study of the Chinese translations of English news headlines concerning the South China Sea disputes on the website of www.ftchinese.com, this paper attempts to provide insights into the translation of ideologies in news in the Chinese context. In the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, the ideological factors underlying the disparity between the English news headlines and their Chinese translations are explored. The three-dimensional model of analysis put forward by Fairclough is modified and adopted in this paper as the basic steps of analysis: firstly, describe the differences between the original and their translations; secondly, associate them with the social reality; finally, account for those differences. In addition, to demonstrate how translators maneuvered to reach a compromise with the antagonistic ideologies which may set difficulties either for the news to win the acceptance of Chinese online readers or pass the Chinese government censorship, this paper offers an analysis of the translation strategies adopted in those Chinese translations, such as substitution, omission as well as the more subtle strategies, including changes of modality and actor. It is found that in the Chinese translations of the English news headlines, translators’ priority is on producing translations suitable to target readers and censors' ideology, rather than linguistic equivalents. Therefore, translating ideology-loaded texts adds a new way to understand translation and ideological explorations in Translation Studies have great potentials.

scholarly journals Repressed Sexual Modernity: A Case Study of Herbert Giles’ (1845 - 1935) Rendition of Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1880) in the late Qing

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Wing Bo Anna TSO
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Chinese Scholars

Translation studies in English and Chinese has long been of great interest to academics. Yet, Chinese scholars who have translation training and linguistic expertise are often found to “give excessive attention to listing facts and probing linguistic matters, to the neglect of the cultural and contextual considerations that have given rise to translation in China in the first place” (Lin, 2002, p. 170). Much emphasis has been placed on translation strategies, while translation “in connection with power and patronage” (Lefereve, 1992, p. 10) is overlooked, leaving “existing ideology” or “existing poetics” (Lefereve, 1992, p. 10), such as gender unexplored. In light of this, this paper attempts to take the literary and cultural approach and focus on examining the gender ideologies in Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740) and Herbert Giles’ English rendition (1880). By comparing the source and target texts, the paper reveals that in many of Pu Songling’s stories, spirit-freelove and sexual pleasure are celebrated. A witty parody of the imitative structures of gender can be found in Pu Songling’s “Painted Skin” too. Unfortunately, to a large extent, such transgressive gender views are repressed in Giles’ English rendition.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on English and Chinese Kinship Terms and Their Translation Strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1237
Author(s):  
Chen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Translation Methods ◽  
Chinese And English

As an important part of addressing forms, kinship terms are frequently used in our daily life. Both Chinese and English languages have their unique cultural background, which determines the significant differences between English and Chinese kinship systems. This paper first makes a comparative analysis and a systematic induction of the English and Chinese kinship terms, then reveal the causes that the differences between the two kinship systems result from, and finally attempts to explores three translation methods of Chinese and English kinship terms, which will attach much more significance to cross-cultural communication as well.

scholarly journals The Concept of Equivalence and Translation Techniques in the Poststructuralists’ Theories of Translation

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (33) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Claudio Salmeri
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Criticism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In ◽  
Theoretical Developments

This article studies the development of the translation theories in the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which significant theoretical contributions were made in translation circles. These contributions had a profound impact on the practice of translation. The individuals who contributed to the present state of translation theory worked in translation circles, and this article examines their contributions. A selected history of theoretical developments, focusing on the most important ideas relevant to translation work, is presented in order to examine the impact of such theories on the practice of translation. It has become commonplace to believe that the deconstructionist and poststructuralist views on translation have opened new perspectives in Translation Studies. The aim of this paper is to highlight the main tenets of the major authors of these theories. The attention is especially drawn to a well-known controversy related to the concept of equivalence and translation strategies. This paper presents the main criticism made by the poststructuralist translation views on interpretation. Finally, some conclusions are drawn.

Continentalism and the invention of traditions in translation studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Delabastita
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Made In

This theoretical case study starts from a brief critical discussion of Eurocentrism in translation studies, underscoring the importance of the efforts toward a more inclusive, truly global and culturally balanced approach to translation which are increasingly being made in our field, often under the banner of “the international turn.” However, the rejection of Eurocentrism leaves open a wide range of alternative models and approaches, and this paper aims to show that the search for alternatives is not without its own difficulties. For example, it might be tempting for non-European scholars to derive an alternative way of thinking about translation from translational practices and discourses in their own continent that appear to be at odds with what is perceived as the “European” model of translation. A post-colonial sensibility would seem to make this an extremely attractive proposition. This is the line of thinking which inspired Edwin Gentzler’s Translation and Identity in the Americas. New Directions in Translation Theory (2008). The paper enters into a critical dialogue with Gentzler’s book in order to argue the general thesis that the replacement of one (perceived) continent-based paradigm by another (perceived) continent-based paradigm is not the best way forward, suffering as it does from a range of methodological problems. The best way to overcome Eurocentrism is not to construct and promote an American continentalism (“translation in the American sense”) as an alternative to it, or any other nationally or continentally defined concept of translation, for that matter.

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