功能对等理论指导下电影片名翻译.docVIP

功能对等理论指导下电影片名翻译 　　【摘　要】随着中西文化交流的增加，电影逐渐凸显出其传媒手段的作用，而电影片名的翻译对于电影的传播起着重要的作用。以当前电影片名翻译现状出发，探寻功能对等理论指导下电影片名翻译方法。结论证明，电影片名翻译时应迎合目的语观众的接受程度和期待视野，灵活使用直译、意译、音译等方法。 【关键词】电影片名；功能对等；翻译方法 On the Translation of Movie Titles under the Guidance of Functional Equivalence CHEN Li-li （School of Foreign Studies, Suzhou University, Suzhou Anhui 234000, China） 【Abstract】Movies, as a kind of important medium of communication, plays an important role in cultural exchanges between China and the western countries. The translation of movie titles is closely related to the popularity of the movie. This paper, based on Nida?s Functional Equivalence, puts forward to translation methods of movie titles. It is concluded that some methods like literal translation, transliteration, and free translation should be flexibly used in accordance with target audience?s understanding and acceptance. 【Key words】Movie titles; Functional equivalence; Translation methods 0　Introduction The translation of movie titles is considered as a crucial and creative job, for a good or bad translation will definitely affect the popularity of the foreign movies, and the movie title is the first step that makes the audience be aware of movies. Many scholars, such as, Nin Zhishou[1], Lin Qun[2], He Ying[3] have focused on this topic and put forward some translation methods. However, the studies have more or less shortcomings and those methods seemed so general that they could not include all of the translation strategies and methods and other approaches on the movie titles translation were ignored. On the basis of the previous studies on this field, this paper, firstly indicates some problems of the movie titles translation, then analyzes the features of the translation of movie titles, and at last, based on Nida’s “functional equivalence”, provides three main approaches, including literal translation, transliteration, and free translation. １　Problems of the Translation of Movie Titles Currentl