从文学表达功能看《儒林外史》中方言翻译的对等-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

Abstract The Scholars is one of the most influential Chinese classical literary works, which is completed in the Qing Dynasty. As the first vernacular novel of satire in Chinese literary history, The Scholars portrays various men of letters and scholars in the late Qing Dynasty vividly, and the writing achieves quite a high artistic level which the cotemporary fictions can hardly get. As Lu Xun once commented in Brief History of Chinese Fiction, No matter officials, scholars, celebrities, recluses, or even ordinary towns folks, The Scholars describes them so vivid for readers that they can almost see the figures in the book stand right in front of eyes. And this outstanding expressiveness benefits from the use of dialect in The Scholars. At present, The Scholars is drawing more and more attention in the academic area and furthering the research on its English version. Among so many researches, however, the translation study of dialect expressions is left open. Under Eugene Nidas functional equivalence theory, the thesis analyses examples of dialect translations in Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yangs translation version of The Scholars from the perspective of literary expressive function theory. According to the dialect words expressive functions, the discussion is divided into three aspects of characterization function, contextualization function and affection function. Based on the above analysis, the author tries to sum up the translating strategies and skills used by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang in translations of dialect expressions. The purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to provide translation researchers a new horizon. Meanwhile, the author hopes the thesis can enlighten translators to make a more reasonable and objective analysis on the readers reading responses to dialect expressions in pre-translation by means of literary theory and to choose a most appropriate translating strategy to achieve the closest natural equivalence in dialect translations. The thes