An Exploration into Lin Yutangs Linguistic Treatment of image pairing in translation（硕士论文）6.doc

An Exploration into Lin Yutangs Linguistic Treatment of image pairing in translation AbstractThe present research is intended to explore the linguistic motivation for thetreatment of image pairing in translation on the basis of tentative description of imagepairing in Chinese expressions.The bilingual version of“Six Chapters of a Floating Life”(thereafter“FloatingLife”for short)was chosen for analysis for two reasons:one is that 50%of the imagesin the original is used in pairs,and the other Lin Yutang was found to be highlyscrupulous in treating paired images when the researcher examined the English versionof“Floating Life”.Based on the identification and categorization of the paired images in“FloatingLife”,the present research focuses on the translator’s motivation behind the differentcategories from the linguistic perspective.The major conclusions are summarized asfollows.The structural analysis of paired images in“Floating Life”reveals that imagepairing tends to be distributed in four-or two-character patterns.The existent literaturereveals that parallel structure is typical of both two-and four-character expressions inChinese,and is realized chiefly by monosyllabic character system and paratacticgrammar.The paired images identified in“Floating Life”are unexceptionally framed inparallel structure.It follows that image pairing is one of the distinctive features ofChinese expressions.The description of the feature justifies the need for theexamination of the way image pairing is treated in English version.The paired images in“Floating Life”are mainly realized by metaphor andmetonymy.In the translation of“Floating Life”,Lin preserves nearly all the pairedmetaphorical images,but takes two approaches to metonymy,dropping 90%of imagesand preserving the other 10%through explanation. iiiLin’s treatment can be interpreted linguistically on the basis of resemblance ofmetaphor and relevance of metonymy.Resemblance is characterized by ambiguity.Linchooses to preserve metapho