从目的论角度浅谈电影英语字幕翻译.doc

I. Introduction Film production has been developing in leaps and bounds ever since and gradually boom as one of the most profitable industries of the world nowadays. As a dominant role in the world, film industries sell their film products all over the world. The Hollywood film industry----the engine of the world film industry is definitely the best evidence．According to the statistics，in the 1930s and 1940s，Hollywood films produced nearly 75% of the film market share in china. Never before have we seen so many foreign films flooding the domestic market and never before have we seen so many Chinese films going abroad. These films were generally dubbed into Chinese because few Chinese audiences understood English at that time. Therefore, film subtitle translation can not present real meanings to the viewers except for the translation of some inter-titles. The significances of the present research are reflected in the following aspects. Since the thesis attempts to combine both film subtitle translation and skopos theory together, it might be conductive to the enrichment of both fields, beneficial to the practice of film subtitle translation as well as the promotion of our understanding of general translation theory. II. Definition of film subtitling A. Subtitle According to George-Michael Luyken(1991), “subtitles are condensed written translations of original dialogue which appears as line of text, usually positioned towards the foot of the screen, subtitles appear and disappear to coincide in time with corresponding portion of the original dialogue and are almost always added to the screen image at a later date as a post-production activity”(335). B. Definition of film subtitling Film subtitle is “a printed statement or fragment of dialogue appearing on the screen between the scenes of a silent motion picture or appearing as a translation at the bottom of the screen during the scenes of a motion picture or television show in a foreign language” (Merriam 1175). In s