In translation practice, transformation often happens at the linguistic and semantic levels since translation between two different languages inevitably entails changes to a text. This transformation is sometimes one ...In translation practice, transformation often happens at the linguistic and semantic levels since translation between two different languages inevitably entails changes to a text. This transformation is sometimes one of genre, for example, from novel genre of the original text to drama genre of the translated text. This paper takes the English translations of San Guo Yan Y/, a classic Chinese historical novel originally composed in the fourteenth century, as its case study as some early excerpted versions are in prose, verse, drama, textbook and other genres. Two partial translations are analysed in detail： one that has been retranslated as drama and the other as a collection of fairy tales. The classic interpretation of intertextuality （mosaic relations between texts） is thus extended in this paper to the level of genre where genre traditions play a role in spelling out the connections between texts. Moreover, this research may contribute to our further understanding of the symmetry between Chinese and Western literary traditions in genre.展开更多
This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung&...This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung's retranslation is extremely close to Yangs' with some changes only in the first two chapters. In this case, paratexts to Cheung Yikman's version covered up the behaviour of plagiarism, which is different from Lawrence Venuti's discussion of paratexts' function in his 2004 essay as "an immediate form of intertextuality" and "make[s] explicit the competing interpretation". This article examines the unreliability of paratexts in intralingual translation, based on a case in English translations of San Guo Yan Yi: Cheung Yik-man's translation of "The Battle of the Red Cliff" excerpted from the novel.展开更多
According to Jakobson's definition, intralingual translation involves rewording an already translated text in the same target language; however, discussions on a special kind of intralingual translation, Self-Retr...According to Jakobson's definition, intralingual translation involves rewording an already translated text in the same target language; however, discussions on a special kind of intralingual translation, Self-Retranslation, i.e. the translator retranslating his or her own previous versions, are few. This paper examines Self-Retranslation from within the wider perspective of intralingual translation. Two issues, which are the real relation between the source text and the target text, and self-referentiality framed in self-retranslator's mind, are proposed and elaborated, based on two intralingual English translations of the classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi.展开更多
基金the project titled “A Contrastive Study of the English Translations of San Guo Yan Yi” (2018SJA1330) funded by the Education Bureau of Jiangsu Province, China
文摘In translation practice, transformation often happens at the linguistic and semantic levels since translation between two different languages inevitably entails changes to a text. This transformation is sometimes one of genre, for example, from novel genre of the original text to drama genre of the translated text. This paper takes the English translations of San Guo Yan Y/, a classic Chinese historical novel originally composed in the fourteenth century, as its case study as some early excerpted versions are in prose, verse, drama, textbook and other genres. Two partial translations are analysed in detail： one that has been retranslated as drama and the other as a collection of fairy tales. The classic interpretation of intertextuality （mosaic relations between texts） is thus extended in this paper to the level of genre where genre traditions play a role in spelling out the connections between texts. Moreover, this research may contribute to our further understanding of the symmetry between Chinese and Western literary traditions in genre.
基金part of the research project titled "The English Translations of San Guo Yan Yi"(18CYY012),funded by the National Social Science Fund of China
文摘This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung's retranslation is extremely close to Yangs' with some changes only in the first two chapters. In this case, paratexts to Cheung Yikman's version covered up the behaviour of plagiarism, which is different from Lawrence Venuti's discussion of paratexts' function in his 2004 essay as "an immediate form of intertextuality" and "make[s] explicit the competing interpretation". This article examines the unreliability of paratexts in intralingual translation, based on a case in English translations of San Guo Yan Yi: Cheung Yik-man's translation of "The Battle of the Red Cliff" excerpted from the novel.
文摘According to Jakobson's definition, intralingual translation involves rewording an already translated text in the same target language; however, discussions on a special kind of intralingual translation, Self-Retranslation, i.e. the translator retranslating his or her own previous versions, are few. This paper examines Self-Retranslation from within the wider perspective of intralingual translation. Two issues, which are the real relation between the source text and the target text, and self-referentiality framed in self-retranslator's mind, are proposed and elaborated, based on two intralingual English translations of the classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi.
