基于贝尔曼分析框架的《围城》英译本研究-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

AbstractAs Abstract As kind of cross—language and cross—cultural communication，translation is not only the transmission of language and culture，but also kind of interpersonal communication and social ethical activity．The study of translation ethics began in the 1 980s．Antoine Berman，a French translator and translation theorist, was the first to put forward the concept of‘translation ethics”．He advocated abandoning ethnocentrism in translation，and deplored the translation strategy of deformation，adaptation and to naturalize the target text．Berman put forward 1 2 deforming tendencies which oRen in translation activities and explained them in great detail．The detailed analysis Can help translators to avoid these tendencies in translation activity． As of the most outstanding contemporary literary works in China,Weicheng has been translated into many languages，and enjoys high reputation in the literary world．Many scholars have done researches its translation from different perspectives among which translation ethics is rarely studied．This paper aims to make tentative study of the English version Fortress Besieged translated by Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K Mao from the perspective of translation ethics and takes Berman’S 1 2 deforming tendencies the framework．By listing some examples the paper demonstrates how these deforming tendencies are embodied avoided in the translation． The research discovers that most of the deforming tendencies put forward by Berman are not found in Fortress Besieged,and the translation of Weicheng retains the foreignness of the original work．However, three tendencies are embodied in the translation and two tendencies are found to be both avoided and embodied in the target text．To appreciate the English version Fortress Besieged as whole，the author fmds that the translators have noticed and respected the‘‘foreignness’’in the language and culture in the great majority of cases．And by taking foreignization as the dominant translation method a