Foreignization and Domestication--Viewed from the Perspective of Cultural Communication（硕士论文）15.docVIP

Foreignization and Domestication--Viewed from the Perspective of Cultural Communication 从文化交流的角度看异化与归化 iAbstractWith the flourishing of cultural study of translation,the former focus of literal andfree translation has been shifted to that of domestication and foreignization.It hasaroused the interests of linguists and translators at home and abroad.The scholars,somesupporting one and opposing to the other,some trying to make a compromise betweenthem,researched this issue of translation from various perspectives.This thesis endeavors to study this subject from the perspective of culturalcommunication,especially against the background of cultural globalization,whenpreserving the cultural diversity being a more urgent issue than ever before.The first chapter serves as an introduction,reviewing how the argument ofdomestication and foreignization came into being and making definitions of the twoschools.It also introduces the aims as well as the scope of research of this thesis.Chapter Two is the literature review.Section One and Section Two present theideas and theories of these two schools respectively.Section Three is the author’sopinion.It examines the theories of the representatives of domestication school,andreveals the limitation of this school.It analyses the most influential translation theory inChina—functional equivalence,and points out that because of the radical differencesacross cultures and the inseparable relationship between language and culture,functional equivalence is hardly achievable,so,this school,although dominant in thefield of translation,does have a vital defect,that is,it conforms the cultural features ofthe source language to that of the target one.Chapter Three is a research of the fundamental aim of translation.It proposes thatunder the circumstance of cultural globalization,when Chinese culture is in anunfavorable situation,it is particularly essential for Chinese-English translators toadopt the foreignization strategy to spread Chinese cul