翻译文学和多元系统─《大卫·科波菲尔》两个中译本描述性研究.docVIP

 Acknowledgements First of all, I am greatly indebted to Professor Zhang Derang, my supervisor, for his invaluable support and unflinching encouragement. His detailed comments and insightful suggestions have been greatly inspiring for the composition of the paper. Without his help I would not have been able to finish this paper. His understanding, encouragement and personal guidance have not only provided a good basis for the present thesis, but also for my future academic researches. My appreciations and gratitude are also extended to Prof. Ouyang Junlin, Prof. Sun Shengzhong, Prof. Yue Jinsheng, Prof. Cai Yuhui, Prof. Cheng Xianfu and Prof. Xie Jinqiu, whose teaching and inspiration over my three-year study have been quite valuable. Another special word of thanks goes to my classmates and friends for their help, support and suggestions Especially, I would like to give my special thanks to my family, whose warmest love has enabled me to complete this work. I Translated Literature and Polysystem ━A Descriptive Approach to the Study of Two Translated Versions of David Copperfield Abstract The present focus on translation studies is shifting from inside language to outside language. Translation studies nowadays tend to be conducted under a broad historical and cultural context. This paper, in order to meet this international trend, tries to conduct a tentative research on two translated versions of David Copperfield of different times from the perspective of polysystem theory. Translation studies, for a long time, have adopted a prescriptive approach, mainly emphasizing the linguistic transfer, the criteria of translation and translation methods etc. The core of such an approach could be briefly summarized as how to translate or how translations should be done, but ignoring political, historical and ideological context, which make it impossible to judge and evaluate a translation fairly and completely. The polysystem theory, put forward by Even-Zohar, an Israel sc