翻译文化学派实证性描述性研究方法述评-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docx

Abstract ηle cultural school for translation s阳dies emerged in the late 20伽 cen阳1).ηlis school lays stress on the relationship between translation and the politics，culture and ideology of both source and target language societies，considering that the aim of translation is to realize the same function of translated text in the 阳电et culture just as the original text does in the source culture，and the focus of 阳nslation studies should 1 no longer be limited to the equivalence problems，but should be extended to social and cultural issues directly or indirectly related to translation activities. Characteristic !‘ of collection，description and analysis of historical data，study of translation by cultural school belongs to positivist and descriptive study. on the basis of previous research on translation studies，this thesis will investigate 由e positivist descriptive features of studies by cultural school and illustrate the values and limitations of such methodology. Chapter One of白thi怡s thesis deals with definitions and f抽ea阳tures of positivist and descriptive approaches and the a仰ppli忧c创a州.t ion ofb协o白tha叩pproa创，ch创es tωo translation studies. Chapter Two gives a general description ofrepresentatives of cultural school and their corresponding theories，applying positivist analysis，deductive and inductive，and otber methods to certain works and papers of Bassnett，Lefevere and Spivak，如r a more profound discussion of the positivist descriptive nature of transition studies and a better comprehension of study methodology applied by this school. Chapter ηrree discusses values and limitations of positivist descriptive study of translation by cultural school. Finally，it comes to a conclusion that the positivist descriptive ?4‘ approach adopted by cultural school broadens the vision of translation studies and ? promotes translation studies to develop in a more scientific direction. All in all，the positivist descriptive s