lecture 8 汉英篇章翻译概述-lj.pptVIP

Lecture 10  篇章翻译(Introduction to textual translation) By Liu Jian from SFL OF NBUT Introduction Teaching aim ： To help students get familiar with textual translation Teaching focus ：The definition of textual translation and translation approaches. Teaching difficulty ：The definition of textual translation Teaching method：Lecture and discuss with examples. Teaching procedure： Section One: The definition of textual translation Section Two： Analysis of textual translation with example。 Textual Translation I. Questions to Discuss 1.What is a text? 2.What is the translation in a textual perspective? 3. What is textual ideology? 1.1 What is a text?(1) Look at the following example: Is it a text? Why or why not? E.g. Tom’s wife is female. The example is grammatically correct, but it means nothing. The sentence is not informative, it is not a text. Concept of A Text Grammatically speaking, a text consists of sentences; a sentence consists of clauses; a clause, phrases; a phrase, words. But Halliday and Hasan thought : (1)“the word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that does form a unified whole…. It may be anything from a single proverb to a whole play, from a cry for help to an all-day discussion…. (2)A text is a unit of language in use. It is not a grammatical unit…. It is not defined by its size…. A text is best regarded as a semantic unit, a unit not of form but of meaning. Thus it is related to a clause or sentence not by size but by realization.” So we can say a text is a communicative unit. It does not only consist of sentences, it is also realized by sentences which must be meaningful. What is a text?(2) A text in linguistics (factors and relationship) Text realized in Paragraph ↓ Sentence Clause Phrase ↑ Word controlled by Translation in a textual perspective (strategic decision making ranks)Text logic among clausesParagraph