scholarly journals The Figure-ground Theory in the Chinese Poetry Translation Strategies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingyun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Ground Theory ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Poetry Translation

Cultural loss in the English translation of Chinese poetry

Babel ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Yang
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Sound Foundation ◽  
Language Text

Translation is to reproduce the meaning and style of a source language text in a target language text in consideration of the cultural differences. Because of dramatic differences between the cultures, translators have to sacrifice something, such as time, religious connotation, and the wording of the original poem to obtain its aesthetic value and its original beauty. In this paper the author examines the poetry translation focusing on the basic concepts of cultural translation and the difficulties of Chinese poetry translation, and special attentions are paid on losses and the strategies in the translation. Beginning from the basic concepts of cultural translation, the paper expounds the essence of the cultural translation in order to lay a sound foundation for the following analysis of the poetry translation. In Part 2, the paper points out the difficulties of Chinese poetry translation that arise from the differences between Chinese and English cultures .Part 3 is a tentative analysis of the losses in the English translation of Chinese poetry and categorizes the losses into four groups:the loss of time;the loss of religious connotation ;the loss in wording; the loss of allusion. To address the losses, the author proposes several strategies such as free translation , transfer of allusion and annotation.

scholarly journals The English Translation of Tang Poetry Based on Cultural Self-confidence and Selective Adaptation-Taking “Changgan Xing” as an Example

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Wang Xu ◽  
Wang Feng ◽  
Zeng Yan
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Selective Adaptation ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Tang Poetry ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Cultural Self

Tang poetry has great poetic and aesthetic value. Based on the theories of cultural self-confidence and selective adaptation, the necessity and rationality of the English translation of Tang poetry will be discussed under the guidance of "Harmony-guided Three-level Criteria of Poetry Translation", and comparative analyses of five English versions of Li Bai’s “Changgan Xing” will be made. The study holds that "Harmony-guided Three-level Criteria of Poetry Translation" not only embodies cultural self-confidence, but also conforms to the spiritual essence of the theory of selective adaptation. It can effectively disseminate Chinese poetry and improve the soft power of Chinese culture.

scholarly journals DIKSI MAJAS OKSIMORON DAN TERJEMAHANNYA DALAM ANTOLOGI PUISI “TIDAK ADA NEW YORK HARI INI”

LITERA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Gusti Agung Sri Rwa Jayantini ◽  
Ronald Umbas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Literal Meaning ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Translation Study ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Close Observation

Karya sastra dan penerjemahan mempunyai peran penting dalam perkembangan bahasa. Cara berekspresi dengan menggunakan diksi dalam karya sastra, khususnya puisi dan terjemahannya memberi peluang bagi pengayaan kosa kata dan pendalaman makna. Penelitian ini merupakan kajian penerjemahan puisi yang berfokus pada diksi majas oksimoron. Analisis ditujukan untuk mengetahui jenis antonim dan strategi  penerjemahan diksi bertentangan pada antologi puisi “Tidak ada New York Hari Ini” dan terjemahannya dalam bahasa Inggris. Metode kualitatif diterapkan dengan melakukan pengamatan (observation) dan analisis isi (content analysis) untuk mencermati diksi yang menciptakan nuansa bertentangan. Ada dua hal utama yang menjadi hasil penelitian ini. Pertama, diksi majas oksimoron dapat berupa (a) oposisi kembar yakni pertentangan mutlak dari dua leksikon, (b) gradual yakni leksikon bertentangan yang menunjukkan gradasi terukur, dan (c) relasional yakni oposisi yang memiliki kaitan hirarkis. Kedua, strategi penerjemahan secara harfiah dan harfiah-makna. Secara harfiah, penerjemahan dilakukan dengan padanan yang makna leksikalnya sesuai, sedangkan secara harfiah-makna penerjemahan dilakukan dengan menggunakan padanan alternatif untuk memberi kesan lebih estetis dan puitis. Kata Kunci: diksi, oksimoron, strategi penerjemahan, penerjemahan puisi DICTIONS OF OXYMORONIC EXPRESSION AND  THEIR TRANSLATION IN THE POEM ANTHOLOGY “TIDAK ADA NEW YORK HARI INI”AbstractLiterary works and translation play a significant role in language development. The expression realized through dictions in literary works, particularly as found in a poem can encourage the enrichment of vocabulary and the exploration of meaning. This is a poetry translation study that is focused on dictions of oxymoronic expressions. It aims at investigating the types of antonym and strategies used to translate the dictions selected to represent the opposite atmosphere in the poem anthology “Tidak ada New York Hari Ini” and its translation in English. This study utilized qualitative method that was applied through close observation and content analysis on the dictions, which were chosen to create a contradictory situation. Two significant results were found in this study. First, this study showed that the dictions of oxymoronic expressions were classified into binary, gradable and relational antonyms. Binary opposition constitutes the oppositeness that cannot be measured. Gradable antonym is the word pairs whose meaning is possibly graded. Relational antonym is shown in the pairs of words that are related to each other through converse relations. Second, two translation strategies – literal translation and literal-meaning translation – were applied in translating the antonyms representing oxymoronic expressions.  Literal translation was shown by the choice of utilizing established equivalent in the translation whose meaning is very close to the source language. Meanwhile, literal-meaning was applied to establish idiomatic translation through the utilization of alternative equivalents that were meant to give more aesthetic and poetic impressions. Keywords: diction, oxymoron, strategies of translation, poetry translation

Vergilija „Eneīdas” mēģinājumi latviešu heksametros

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
Līva Bodniece
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Proper Nouns ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
The Press ◽  
Latin Epic ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
Epic Poems

This paper presents the compilation and analysis of the Latvian translations of the Aeneid, the Latin epic poem written by Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), from the first attempts in the late 19th century until the most recent publication in 1970. The materials analysed also include republications of translation excerpts. The source texts are arranged and revised chronologically, and the text analysis is achieved through the comparative method. Particular attention is paid to the translation issues of the dactylic hexameter, the ancient meter also known as “the meter of the epic”. There is no tradition in the Latvian cultural context to render epic poems into prose or any other meter than the dactylic hexameter. Augusts Ģiezens is the most prolific translator of epic poems in Latvian and has translated all Ancient Greek epic poems and the Roman Aeneid. Consequently, his version of the dactylic hexameter has established itself as an example for many generations of readers. The reason for this is the lack or unavailability of other translations. The comparison of translations also offers a look into the rendering of ancient proper nouns. Particular care is devoted to critiques of the translations as published by contemporaries in the press. The variations of translation strategies in early 20th-century poetry renderings in terms of both meter and proper noun rendering lead to the conclusion that attempts in creating a Latvian hexameter have not yet been exhausted and are likely to find new manifestations, particularly in Latvian ancient poetry translation.

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