翻译中的文化迁移张培基《英译中国现代散文选》个案研究1[精选].doc

班级 _____英语083______学号__4号________姓名 __王宁______ 分数__________ Cultural transfer in translation——a study of the Selected Modern Chinese Prose Writings translated by Professor Zhang Peiji. Abstract With increasing contact between China and the Western world, a better understanding between the two cultures is of growing importance. During the process of intercultural communication, the distinctive features of culture may undoubtedly bring out both cultural exchanges and cultural conflicts. Although there may be different means by which the exchanges can be achieved and the conflicts smoothed over, it is translation that can be used as the most useful medium to serve both purposes. Since translation came into being, it has never been short of people’s attention. Scholars formulate their own translation theories and standpoints from different angles; various schools have been established, the two major ones being the linguistic school and the cultural school. The theories of both schools are actually interwoven with one another. However, with the boom in cultural studies in the academic field, cultural theories in translation have attracted considerable interest on the part of scholars and have become the main research tendency. Susan Bassnett, one of the leading figures of the cultural school, thinks that translation should take culture as the translation unit so as to realize the functional equivalence between the SL culture and the TL culture. In the process of seeking cultural equivalence, the translator enjoys great freedom of creation. S/he can not only adopt a flexible method of rewriting, but also break with the literary form of the original. This concept of translation, taking a macro view of translation study and reviewing it from a brand new perspective the nature and function of translation, the translator’s position, and the relationship between translation and culture, has greatly broadened the hor