英文专业毕业论文开题报告.docVIP

PAGE PAGE PAGE 3 毕业论文开题报告 学生姓名： 专 业： 英语 班级学号： 设计(论文)题目：On E-C Translation of English Humors: A Functionalist Perspective 指导教师： 2014 年 01 月 12 日  毕 业 论 文 开 题 报 告 1. Research objectives and significance/ issues to be discussed and relevant means to be employed, etc. Humor is an essential part of a culture. To totally understand a nation, we have to understand and appreciate its humor, which makes the translation of humor necessary. However, in the translation field, it has been widely acknowledged that humor translation can make a translator feel as desperate as poetry translation can, which indicates that it is very difficult to translate humor. But even so, scholars and translators are still working on it, trying to approach humor translation from one perspective or another and a lot of achievements on humor translation have been made so far. In previous studies, humor is classified into situational humor and non-situational humor for the purpose of translation. Generally speaking, it is considered easier to deal with situational humor because this kind of humor is neither language-bound nor culture-bound. However, problems are likely to arise in the non-situational humor category due to the fact that humor of this kind is mainly produced with the aid of linguistic techniques and cultural background information．As far as translation of this category of humor is concerned, translation strategies like domestication and annotation are highly recommended．If the translator can not produce exactly the same humor in the target text as that in the source text, he or she is recommended to produce similar humor in the target text, and if similar humor can not be produced either, the translator can resort to annotation to ensure that the target text receiver can feel the humor after reading the annotation. A brief review of the previous studies on hu