论法律翻译中译者的主体地位-翻译理论与实践专业论文.docxVIP

i i Acknowledgements I am very grateful to all those who have taught me and helped me during my postgraduate study. Without their guidance, encouragement and assistance, this thesis would be impossible. First and foremost, I want to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Xiong Demi, for his kind instruction, constructive suggestions and providing insightful feedback and valuable advice in the process of five times’ revision. Secondly, I would also like to thank the professors who have contributed valuable instructions during my three years’ M. A. study. They are Prof. Song Lei, Prof. Xiao Yunshu, Prof. Zhao Liang, Prof. Zheng Daxuan, and Prof Li Li from Southwest University. Their lectures have always been enlightening and illuminating. Thirdly, I would like to extend my profound appreciation to my classmates for their support in my study. Last but not least, I am very indebted to my elder brother for his constructive suggestions in the writing and amending of this thesis and my family for their constant encouragement. ii ii Abstract Translation is an old and reviving subject in which the translator is an indispensable element. Therefore, the translator’s subjectivity becomes a problem that has to be concerned with in the process of translation, especially in legal translation study. Although legal translation theory is regarded as one integral part of the traditional translation theories, few scholars have explored the legal translation theory systematically because legal translation has long just been regarded as a branch of technical and scientific translation in which the main task or purpose of the translator is to render terms between English and Chinese. Thus, the position of the translator’s subjectivity has not been given its due weight in legal translation studies for a long time. However, legal texts produced in different legal systems are the language carriers loaded with different legal norms and social rules accumulated in different