英汉互译中模糊语言的显化与隐化翻译.doc

Explicitness and Implicitness of Vague Language in Translation between English and Chinese I. Introduction II. A Brief Introduction to Vague language The Definition of Vague Language Characteristics of Vague language Subjectivity and Indeterminacy Agglutination and Variability Classifications of Vague Language 3.1. Linguistic Vagueness 3.1.1 Vagueness at the Level of Phonetics 3.1.2 Vagueness at the Level of Meaning 3.1.3 Vagueness at the Level of Grammar Cultural Vagueness 4. Functions of Vague Language Vagueness and Politeness Vagueness and Humor Vagueness and Aesthetics III. The Strategies of dealing with Vague Language in Translation Factors Influencing Vague Language Translation Properties of Language: Differences Between English and Chinese Cultural Difference and Cultural Lacuna Explicitness in Vague Language Translation Precision to Precision Vagueness to Precision Implicitness in Vague Language Translation Vagueness to Vagueness Precision to Vagueness IV. Conclusion Ⅰ.Introduction The emergence and development of language has experienced a long time, so dose human’s understanding of language. People’s research on language has always laid particular stress on “precision”. The more precise, the better. But the reality is usually unsatisfactory. For the absolute precision is very hard to achieve and now people have found there is no absolutely clear things in the world. In our daily communication, the meaning we imparted is sometimes inevitably inadequate or unclear which lead to the misunderstanding of the receiver. Even facing the same thing different people give different views. That is the vagueness of language. Since the publication of fuzzy sets by L.A.zadeh, un expert on automatic control, many disciplines related to vagueness have sprouted up across the world, as J.Channell states :”Interests in vagueness in language use and meaning has arisen in a number of disciplines: literary criticism, linguistics, psychology, philosophy.”(p5) Among them t