The Limits of Cultural Translatability in Yang Xianyi’s Translation of Poems in A DRM

Poems are the products of national culture, and A Dream of Red Mansions (A DRM) is the collection of Chinese culture in the era when the novel was written, so poems in A DRM express a wealth of cultural messages. According to the Limits of Translatability raised by Catford in 1965, cultural untranslatability occurs when a relevant situational feature for the SL text is absent in the TL. So this paper aims to find problems of cultranslation of poems in A DRM, and tries to further restrict cultural untranslatability by applying compensation strategies.

Analysis English Translation of Chinese Poems' Color Words——Functional Equivalence Theory

The translation of Chinese ancient poems has always been the direction of many translators at home and abroad,and the translation of color words has gradually become the object of study.However,due to the difference between translation theory and perspective,there are many controversial translations.Based on the theory of "functional equivalence" proposed by American translation theorist Eugene Nida,this paper analyzes the concrete translation of Chinese ancient poems,and aims to explore how to translate the color words in ancient poems in the best way,And summed up the specific and practical translation methods.

An Analysis of Metaphor Translation of Birds as Images in Chinese Traditional Poems and Ci

In Chinese traditional poems and ci, animal images provide an important platform for expressing emotions, and birds are particularly beloved by almost all authors. This essay chooses two classical poems and one ci which use birds as images as well as their translation version of Xu Yuanchong. As for conclusion, this essay believes that there exists fixed translation methods in translating fixed bird images though some kind of birds in some poems or ci should be translated based on specific situation, such as authors' feelings and social backgrounds.

Gary Snyder＇s Defamiliarization Translation of Chinese Classic Poems

The ＂defamiliarization theory＂ has undergone a process of continuous improvement, with its focus shifting from the plain text to the world concerned. A similar process was experienced by scholars who apply the theory. In this paper, the author explores Gary Snyder＇s ＂defamiliarization＂ technique of translating classic Chinese poems Departing from the traditional critique of the form and structure of the text, the author applies the ＂defamiliarization theory＂ itself towards the understanding of Snyder＇s art and thinking and a discussion of his literature, ideology, and creativity, thereby restoring a true image of Gary Snyder as a poet and a translator

A Comparative Analysis on Nine English Translations of Mao Zedong Poems

A poem can not be interpreted to its exact meaning, which determines the different understanding and translation strategies and the ensuing different translation versions. This paper, by analyzing nine versions of Mao Zedong＇s poems from its form, choice of words, imagery and meters, finds that Prof. Li Zheng-shuan＇s version has reproduced both the lyrical and spiritual effects in the translation： Looking at it, it＇s pleasant to the eyes; listening to it, it＇s agreeable to the ear; thinking about it, it＇s penetrating to the mind; reading it, it＇s flowing fluently on the tongue

A Study on Fang Zhong’s Translation of Tao Yuan-Ming’s Poems from the Perspective of Supermemes of Translation

In the background of different language among different countries, a good translation becomes important when wecommunicate with foreigners and at the same time, some theories are concerned by the translators and learners oftranslation. This paper is to describe Fang Zhong’s translation version of Tao Yuan-Ming’s poems, themasterpieces favored by the public, using supermemes as follows: Source-target, the equivalence, untranslatability,Free-vs-literal, all-writing-is-translating, which are the inheritance and deepening of memes of translation, whichnaturally promotes cultural communication and mutual understanding among countries.

“Admiration of Flowers in Poems”-On Image Rendering of Flowers in Tang Poems Under the Guidance of Green Translation

The progress of economy and social development is the driving force of translation research and practice.With the deepening of global development and cooperation,global ecology and green concept has become a topic of concern and is capturing increasing worldwide attention.Under this circumstances,green development has become the key to building global ecological civilization.“Strengthening ecological consciousness and green consciousness,shouldering ecological responsibility”has also become the main theme of the times.In response to this green trend,Green Translation lays stress on the green concept,green behaviour,and the green value in translation practice.The flower images,which take up a large proportion of plant images in Tang poetry,are of high ecological value and significance.This paper takes the Translation of 300 Tang Poems as the research subject,conducts a study on the image rendering of flowers in Tang poetry from the three aspects of Green Translation:language ecology,cultural ecology and communicative ecology.

On the Translation of the Place Names in Chinese Classic Poems

Chinese classic poems are a part of Chinese cultural heritage.The place names contain lots of Chinese cultural charac-teristics.Some have special connotations and how to translate these connotations in the poems is another difficulty of poem translation. We should put both keeping the cultural characteristics and the understanding capacity of the target readers into consideration.Guided by Functional Equivalence,this thesis intends to discuss the translation of place names in Chinese poems,aims to broadcast Chinese culture.

On Yuanqu Poems Translation from the Perspective of Relevance Theory——A Case Study on Three Poems in An English Translation of 200 Yuanqu Poems

The rich and distinctive cultural connotations in Yuanqu poems pose great challenges to translators. Translators have always been faced with the problem that the external and internal properties of original work can't be reproduced simultaneously in Yuanqu poems translation. For the present, few people attempt to analyze or evaluate the quality of Yuanqu poems tranlation with relevance theory. Therefore, It ventures to explore an effective way for Yuanqu poems translation from the perspective of relevance theory, by analyzing the three poems in An English Translation of 200 Yuanqu Poems.

Translations of Chrysanthemum Poems in Dreams of Red Mansion from the Perspective of Roger T·Bell’s Cognitive Schema—based on Yang’s and Hawkes’s editions

The transability of poems has been a heated debate.Actually,there is no problem in transforming one language to anoth⁃er.However,the successful transformation rests with that the translation can get the identical aesthetics effect of source texts.It is no doubt that translation process plays a vital role.This paper will analyze and study the translations of chrysanthemum poems in Dreams of Red Mansion from the perspective of Roger T·Bell’s cognitive schema,based on two editions,the translation of Yang Xianyi and Yang Gladys and the translation of David Hawkes.The analysis gives rises a conclusion that the poetic beauty(the liter⁃ary grace containing in poems),disposition(the personality hiding behind poems)and omen(the destiny implying in poems)can be interactively processed in syntactic,semantic and pragmatic levels if the content and meaning of source text and target text can be transmitted equally.

Skills for Translating Onomatopoeia in English Poems

Skills for Translating Onomatopoeia in English Poems aims for a better comprehension of translating skills for onomatopoeia in English poems. By introducing the definition of onomatopoeia, it proposes several methods of translating onomatopoeia. It suggests, it's better to keep the part of speech of onomatopoeia when translate an English poem for fully expressing the meaning of the original author;or change the part of speech of onomatopoeia if it is necessary, which are definitely explained by methods and examples including turning nouns into verbs, turning verbs into nouns and turning adjectives into verbs. It also points out one can add onomatopoeia to a text without onomatopoeia for other purposes.

A Brief Analysis of the Translation of Tang Poem

As is known to all,Tang Poem(TP) reflects the humanities,the place and the people,the political and cultural life of the Tang dynasty.TP must be translated cautiously and detail.Poetry translation may be considered a rivalry between two languages(or even between two cultures) which vies to express the original idea best.That is to say,it is most important to grasp the cultural background in that period before one can study the translation of TP from a cultural perspective.Culture will not fade as time goes by and will not vanish as the world changes.How do TP be translated into English by application of linguistic context analysis? Firstly,the translator should have a thorough understanding of the content and background,and accordingly use various techniques of translation,e.g.Literal translation,free translation,transliteration,etc;furthermore,the style of the original must be given serious consideration.Linguistic context analysis includes phonetic context analysis,syntax context analysis and syntactic context analysis.As for the syntax,as far as syntax is concerned,there are many differences between Chinese and English.Mr.Wang Li points out:"western language is rules-oriented,but Chinese is man-oriented"(Shen Xiaolong.1990:141).As for the syntax,he says:"structure of TP is close-knit and flaws less,which is inflexible,but western grammar isn't." this theses attempts to analysis how does an English version of a TP embody the style of the original poetic work by using proper syntactical form.

Video Game Title Translation Functional Translation Theory Perspective

The video game plays an important role in inter-cultural communication studies. However, few have ventured the field of E-C translation of video game titles. Within the frame of Skopostheorie, this paper focuses on the three translation strategies brought up by the functions and features of video game titles. When preserving the structure and meaning of the original title is possible, literal translation should be used. However, the fact that some translators ignore the context of the title causes rigid translation. Transliteration is recommended when the title is the name of a person or place because the meaning of the title is hard to be preserved by the other two strategies. Since there are cultural differences between China and western world, when literal translation and transliteration cannot present the meaning of the title, free translation should be used. Translators should bear the content and game play of the game in mind in order to free themselves from the formal equivalence for a properly translated title. Free translation does not mean translators can do the translation as whatever they want in the name of Skopos, they should avoid arbitrary translation. The aim of this paper is to help people to understand more about the E-C translation of video game title as well as the practical translation strategies and Sino-western inter-cultural communication.

Discussion on the Translation of Chinese Ancient Literatures

The Chinese ancient literature has a long history.More and more foreign friends give strong interest into reading and learning it.However,not all the foreign people are proficient at classical Chinese,the metre and rhyme of Chinese poems,thus,translators have to translate these words into English or other languages,which brought a discussion about whether the Chinese ancient poems can be translated or not.This paper starts from this very point,to analyze current situation of the research on Chinese ancient literatures translation,taking Chinese ancient poems as examples,to discuss this topic,and to give opinions and possible solutions.

Poetry Translation in the Cross-Cultural Perspective

Poem or verse is a kind of literary genre, which is ruled by syllable, tune and rhythm scheme, uses concise words, plentiful emotions and rich phenomenon to highly give the picture of social life and spiritual world. In ancient China, musical poems were called songs, while poems without music verses. To translate poems is inevitable. This paper begins from poem translation and chooses theory of translation as bedding in order to discuss how to translate poems and various meanings of poems at different cultural background.It is divided into three parts. The first part tells theory to know more about translation. The second part analyzes poems of three dynasties by way of exploring historical materials, making the foundation to go on. The third part researches features of poem translation.

Cultural Filtration and Compensation of Li Po’s Poems about “Jiu”

Li Po’s poems have been translated and disseminated internationally for hundreds of years.His poems about“jiu”have attracted many Western readers’attention after translation and introduction.Based on Li Po’s poems,this paper proves the fact that Li Po’s Jiu poems play an important role in the international communication of Chinese Jiu culture.With Chinese culture’s“going out”,translators should translate the types of Chinese Jiu and drinking vessels as well as the drinking customs more accurately,so as to make western readers realize the significance of Li Po’s Jiu poems for understanding Chinese Jiu culture.

A Study of English-Chinese Translation Methods for Cosmetic Advertising

Advertisement is an action or form of communication in the market whose purpose is to inform potential customers about products and services and how to obtain and use them.However,English and Chinese advertisements have different forms and characteristics due to the influence of some factors such as their distinct language and culture.This study analyzes the characteristics of advertising language based on some typical examples of cosmetic advertising at home and abroad.The findings show that four methods of English-Chinese advertising translation are commonly used namely transliteration,literal translation,free translation and supplementary translation.These findings contribute to our knowledge in cosmetic advertising translation and are of practical significance for relevant research in the future.

On Translated Texts of Poem Fragment from the Perspective of Experiential Metafunction

Although Halliday's systemic functional linguistics has extensively been applied to the analysis of texts of different types, in the literature to date, there are few studies on the translation of poems within the Hallidayan framework. This paper is an attempt to study the modern poem Fragment by Bian Zhilin and its translated versions from the perspective of Experiential Metafunction in systemic functional linguistics. It is hoped that this study will provide a good insight into the translation studies and that the applicability of systemic functional linguistics to discourse analysis is well tested.

An Interpretation of Multiplicity and Complementary of Translation Criterion with Reference to the Study on Two Chinese Versions of Ode to the West Wind

The complexity and various intentions or functions of literary translation cause different literary works.The general criteria tohelp evaluate and guide translators to strive for a good translation could be the traditional three principles,these are faithfulness,fluencyand elegance,but it is also feasible to apply some other subordinate criteria to translate or analyze different literary works.The paper fo-cuses on the analysis of multiplicity and complementary of translation criterion on the poem translation,makes comparison and evalua-tion of Gu Zhengkun's Ode to the West Wind(stanza 4&5) with Zha Liangzheng's version,and proves that flexible application of thistranslation criterion makes the translated version truly different.

Untranslatability in Onomatopoeia Translation—A Case Study of the Book of Songs

Classical poetry is a kind of special classical literature with highly concise language,rich emotion,profound implication and certain rhythm.The development of poetry translation is related to the spread of Chinese classical culture.There are many opinions about translatability and Untranslatability of poetry translation.The translation of meaning is relatively easy,while the rhetoric technique closely related to the form of expression is more difficult,which is the key to express the poet's feelings.There⁃fore,this paper aims to explore the untranslatability of onomatopoeia in poetry by combining with the Book of Songs.