Cultural Elements and Translation 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

Cultural Elements and Translation 1.?? ? Introduction ? As the world enters into a state of multiculturalism in the context of globalization, the focus of translation studies has shifted from linguistic items to cultural factors. The “cultural turn” in translation studies, which took places in the 1990s, has made the study of cultural factors even more urgent and acute. In the past, from the very beginning of translation activities to the mid 20th century, translators’ attention mainly fell on how to render the source text into the target language on the linguistic level, and the disputes were mostly about whether to translate word for word or to translate the sense. From the 1970s, more and more scholars and translators began to set their eyes on the rendering of cultural elements in translation, and the problem of how to render the cultural elements in translation, and the problem of how to render the cultural elements contained in the source language is presented before translators and scholars. Different strategies were put forward and discussed, but in essence, the strategies were still confined to the disputes over free and literal translation. After the “cultural turn”, there came the real breakthrough in the field of translation studies. The problem of how to render the cultural elements in the source text remained unsolved, and another round of conflicts concerning whether to adopt a foreign strategy or a domesticating strategy was launched, which in nature was the extension of the disputes on free literal translation, and this was especially true with the situation in China. Up to now no agreement has ever been achieved. These conflicts and disputes on translation strategies proved that strategies in the form of dichotomy have their inborn deficiency and tended to be controversial. ? 2.?? ? Different functions in the text of the translation of cultural factors ? Culture is a very wide coverage of the concept, and it is inextricably linked to language. In T