文学作品中人物的命名往往体现了作者的意识形态,它是一种文化载体,隐含不同民族的历史、宗教、习俗等,具有丰富的文化内涵。小说《甄嬛传》中人物繁多,关系错综复杂,人物姓名极具鲜明个性。由于名字体现了特定文化语境里的文化内容,因...文学作品中人物的命名往往体现了作者的意识形态,它是一种文化载体,隐含不同民族的历史、宗教、习俗等,具有丰富的文化内涵。小说《甄嬛传》中人物繁多,关系错综复杂,人物姓名极具鲜明个性。由于名字体现了特定文化语境里的文化内容,因此准确传达其精髓尤为重要。目前《甄嬛传》仅有一个译本,即Empresses in the Palace,该剧已在美国付费网站Netflix上线。在Empresses in the Palace中,人名全部使用了音译法,将人名仅作为代号进行处理。使译本缺乏应有的文化特性。鉴于此,该研究拟从翻译审美主体的创造性出发,为此问题寻求出路。翻译的审美主体(TAS),也就是翻译者,时常受制于原语的可译性限度以及双语的文化差异。如何发挥翻译者的主观能动性将可译性的掣肘降低,使审美再现,是译者所要追求的目标。在此目标下,本研究以《甄嬛传》为例,探究人名英译。展开更多
Nowadays,cultural exchanges between China and the world are becoming more frequent with the predominant feature that increasing Chinese films and television dramas are going to the globe.Due to different cultural back...Nowadays,cultural exchanges between China and the world are becoming more frequent with the predominant feature that increasing Chinese films and television dramas are going to the globe.Due to different cultural backgrounds,the translation of culturally-loaded words becomes a major difficulty in the subtitles.This article is based on the popular TV seriesEmpresses in the Palace in the Chinese version and the American version,dividing the culturally-loaded words in the play into:social culturallyloaded words,ecological culturally-loaded words,religious culturally-loaded words,material culturally-loaded words,and linguistic culturally-loaded words.Since the translation of subtitles is affected by time and space and other factors,its strategy also needs to be adjusted.This article analyzes four kinds of translation strategies adopted in the play respectively,i.e.transliteration,literal translation,free translation,omission,and alternative.展开更多
文摘文学作品中人物的命名往往体现了作者的意识形态,它是一种文化载体,隐含不同民族的历史、宗教、习俗等,具有丰富的文化内涵。小说《甄嬛传》中人物繁多,关系错综复杂,人物姓名极具鲜明个性。由于名字体现了特定文化语境里的文化内容,因此准确传达其精髓尤为重要。目前《甄嬛传》仅有一个译本,即Empresses in the Palace,该剧已在美国付费网站Netflix上线。在Empresses in the Palace中,人名全部使用了音译法,将人名仅作为代号进行处理。使译本缺乏应有的文化特性。鉴于此,该研究拟从翻译审美主体的创造性出发,为此问题寻求出路。翻译的审美主体(TAS),也就是翻译者,时常受制于原语的可译性限度以及双语的文化差异。如何发挥翻译者的主观能动性将可译性的掣肘降低,使审美再现,是译者所要追求的目标。在此目标下,本研究以《甄嬛传》为例,探究人名英译。
文摘Nowadays,cultural exchanges between China and the world are becoming more frequent with the predominant feature that increasing Chinese films and television dramas are going to the globe.Due to different cultural backgrounds,the translation of culturally-loaded words becomes a major difficulty in the subtitles.This article is based on the popular TV seriesEmpresses in the Palace in the Chinese version and the American version,dividing the culturally-loaded words in the play into:social culturallyloaded words,ecological culturally-loaded words,religious culturally-loaded words,material culturally-loaded words,and linguistic culturally-loaded words.Since the translation of subtitles is affected by time and space and other factors,its strategy also needs to be adjusted.This article analyzes four kinds of translation strategies adopted in the play respectively,i.e.transliteration,literal translation,free translation,omission,and alternative.