从顺应论角度谈翻译策略之选择英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

Acknowledgements I am greatly indebted to my supervisor, Professor Zhang Huiqin, who, in spite of her being fully occupied, devoted all her care to revising and commenting on this thesis. Without her strict guidance, constant encouragement and valuable suggestions, the thesis would never have come to the present stage. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the teachers in the School of Humanities Social Sciences English Department, Professor Zhang Sijie, Professor He Qiguang, Professor Wang Jinhua and Professor Liu Chenyan, whose lectures have been of great help for the thesis. Last, but not least, my heartfelt gratitude goes to my mother, to whom I entrust my child and my husband whose encouragement gives me confidence in finishing my thesis. Abstract As an indispensable part of translation studies, the choice of translation strategies has always been a focus that appeals to the attention of researchers in translation field. Based on different criteria and principles, many translators and translation theorists insist their standpoints on the choice of translation strategies. With the shift of research paradigm from prescription to description in translation studies, Adaptation Theory provides a new perspective to study the ever-lasting dispute. Firstly, the thesis defines translation strategies and relevant terms, then reviews the dispute over the choice of translation strategies in translation history, through which the necessity is found to study the issue with the basis of a new theory and by a different research paradigm. Jef. Verschueren assumes language use should be a continuous making of linguistic choices with different degree of salience for the purpose of adaptation in his Adaptation Theory. Translation — a special form of language use, is a cross-cultural communication, which therefore can be approached by Verschueren’s theory of adaptation. Dynamics of adaptability is the centre in the theory of adaptation which means the dynamic generation