影响英语电影译名接受程度因素地.pdfVIP

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Film is not only a universal entertainment mode in modern times, but also an important vehicle for cultural communication. However, compared with its huge social impact, film translation receives little academic concern, let alone film title translation. Though developed in recent years, the studies on film title translation are mainly engaged in idle theorizing while field investigation or research has seldom been conducted (Zhang Guangfa Liu Xuanchuan, 2006: 84), and the key domain audience research has been ―unluckily, even irresponsibly neglected‖ (Zhang Yingjin, 2007:81). Many scholars approach the issue from the micro-level of specific translation strategies with mechanical application of one single translation theory, thus fail to explain and evaluate the translation effect efficiently, which leads to disunity in film title translation between mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and disorder as the normal status quo of film title translation in reality. This thesis takes a new approach from audience perspective to investigate the E-C film title translation acceptance state by mainland audience, and to study the factors affecting their acceptance, hoping to generalise some rules beneficial to film title translator‘s practice. First a survey is designed to investigate the acceptance of different translations, with different translated versions for 28 representative English film titles as the main content, taking the form of a combination of survey and interview. To enlarge the sample size, the data were collected via a variety of methods in both field survey and net survey, at last 411 valid questionnaires were collected. The