The present study chooses Li Sao,one of the representatives of traditional Chinese Chu culture,as the research subject.Through establishing two small monolingual corpora,a comparative analysis of Yang Xianyi’s transl...The present study chooses Li Sao,one of the representatives of traditional Chinese Chu culture,as the research subject.Through establishing two small monolingual corpora,a comparative analysis of Yang Xianyi’s translation and David Hawkes’translation was made from the perspective of translation universals on three levels,namely lexical level,syntactic level and textual level.The results show that two translations both reflect the translation universals to some extent,but Hawkes’translation is more consistent with the translation universals in comparison with Yang Xianyi’s on the whole.展开更多
基金This paper is supported by the Excellent Dissertation Cultivation Funds of Wuhan University of Technology(2018-YS-090).
文摘The present study chooses Li Sao,one of the representatives of traditional Chinese Chu culture,as the research subject.Through establishing two small monolingual corpora,a comparative analysis of Yang Xianyi’s translation and David Hawkes’translation was made from the perspective of translation universals on three levels,namely lexical level,syntactic level and textual level.The results show that two translations both reflect the translation universals to some extent,but Hawkes’translation is more consistent with the translation universals in comparison with Yang Xianyi’s on the whole.
