2010312462-李世伟-开题报告课件.ppt

COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES Thesis proposal presentation and debate Analysis of differences between Chinese and Western idioms and their translation 中西习语差异及其翻译分析 By Li Shiwei Supervisor: Ren chenggang Why Do I Choose This Topic? First of all, idioms are important part of human life, at the same time, they are the essence of language and bear the cultural characteristics and cultural information of a nation. Secondly, idiom translation is a key and difficult point. So , it’s a very important task to make a better translation about idioms. Thirdly, some translation skills and techniques need to consider seriously and meticulously, which can do the best. Problem Statements How about the current situation of idiom researching and translation? What’s expectations and objectives after idioms’ study and analysis? What are ways and skills we can put into use in idioms translation and analysis? Literature Review-Overseas Research Makkai’s Idiom structure in English identifies two major types of idioms: those of encoding and decoding. L．P.Smith’s book Words and Idioms (1925), is an exposition of what language idiosyncrasies or peculiarities tell us about the usage of idioms in English. C. Fernando’s Idioms and Idiomaticity classifies the English idioms into three kinds of idioms are: ideational idiomatic expressions, interpersonal idiomatic expressions, and relational idiomatic expressions. Literature Review-Domestic Research Learning English Idioms, which was published in the Journal of PLA institute of foreign languages by FungChuiWah in 1978, was the earliest article of the domestic research of English idioms writings. Since the 1988, For about 10 years, Domestic idioms research gradually extended to cognitive linguistics and functional linguistics and applied linguistics based on the traditional research methods. How will I carry out my dissertation? Theoretically, I need to figure out the characteristics and definition of idiom,