Translation of Children's Literature from the Perspective of Function Equivalence——A Case Study of Chinese Version of Charlotte's Web

Children's literature being a unique type of literary at a peripheral position,it is difficult for translators to reappear itsessence in the target text,due to the diverse cultures and language conventions.Since Functional Equivalence Theory emphasizesthe functional equivalence between ST and TL which provides a new idea and method for literary translation,the thesis makes ananalysis of the Chinese version of Charlotte's Web.This comes from the perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory so as to dis-cusses whether Functional Equivalence Theory is effective in the translation of children's literature,and how has it been em-ployed.The thesis hopes that children's literature will be paid more attention,and the prosperity of children's literature transla-tion will be promoted.

On Translation of Children’s Literature Based on Reception Aesthetics:A Case Study of The Secret Garden

Grounded in reader-centered theories,Reception Aesthetics prioritizes the active engagement and acceptance of target readers.This study examines the translation of children’s literature through the lens of Reception Aesthetics,using Li Wenjun’s rendition of The Secret Garden as a case study.The objective is to scrutinize various aspects of the translation-including vocabulary,syntax,rhetorical devices,and cultural nuances-and to discern how the adaptation and application of diverse translation strategies cater to the aesthetic expectations.

The Translation of Children's Literature under the Guidance of Reception Aesthetics

In recent years,a great majority of excellent foreign children' s literary works have sprung up in the domestic market,so the translation of children' literature are drawn much attention.However,the relevant studies which guide the translation of children literature are quite few.Reception Aesthetics which take readers reception as a goal provides a new prospective for the translation of children s literature and promote its development.

The Polysystem and the Translation of Children' s Literature

Polysystem Theory was developed in 1970s by Israeli scholar Itamar Even-Zohar,and was well known for its three circumstances.Children' literature,as a special branch of literature,attracts more and more research nowadays.This paper explores the process of translation of Children' s Literature in China under polysystem.

Translation Skills of Children’s Literature from the Perspective of Recep tion Theory:A Case Study of Bronze and Sunflower

With the development of society and the prosperity of Chinese literature,as a part of China’s soft power,Chinese chil dren literature is faced with the problem of international dissemination.The English version of Cao Wenxuan’s Bronze and Sunflow er won Hans Christian Andersen Award,the top award of children’s literature,which is a successful example of such dissemina tion.Therefore,the Chinese-English translation skills employed are worth studying.This paper aims to analyze the skills used to in the translation of short clauses,reiterative locution,simile,parallelism and dingzhen from the perspective of reception theory.It is found that by using such translation skills as omission,alliteration,repetition of prepositions and pronouns,and literal translation,the translator preserves and recreates the effect of the original text in ways that are more acceptable and idiomatic for the target reader.

On Children's Literature Translation from the Perspective of Skopos Theory——A Case Study on Harry Potter

The translation of the children's literature,as a branch of literature bears its own distinctive features,which is an attractivefield to study.The flourishing contemporary western translation theories provide new perspectives for the translation studies.Among thetheories,Skopos theory raised by German scholars is unique.It was developed by Hans Vermeer,which has provided theoretical supportfor children's literature translation.The thesis attempts to discuss the translation of children's literature from skopos theory with a casestudy comparing the two Chinese versions of Harry Potter.This paper focuses on whether the two Chinese versions pertain to specificgroup of readers like children and whether they are attractive enough to cater to children by way of choosing simple words,sentences,etc,which underscores that Han's Vermeer skopos theory counts a lot in children's literature translation.By its guidance,the transla-tion of children's literature will arouse more children's interest.

A Comparative Study on English-Chinese Translation of The Borrowers from the Perspective of Skopos Theory

When translating children's literature, the characteristics of the target readers can not be neglected. However, in thetranslation of literary works in China, translation of children's literature in China has always been ignored. E-C translation practicein children's literature and the theoretical study are of imbalance. When it comes to the theoretical study of E-C translation of chil-dren's literature, it is far backward. Skopostheorie holds that the purpose of translation is the primary rule to be followed, and pro-vides children's literature translation with theory evidence. The Borrowers was introduced into China in 1990, highly appreciatedby readers. However, the related research in the translation of this book is poor. This paper takes Skopostheorie as the theoreticalframework and combines the characteristics of children's literature, discussing the different Chinese translation versions of the Brit-ish children's literature The Borrowers. This paper makes a comparative analysis on the advantages and disadvantages of differentChinese versions, and summarizes the methods of translating children's literature.

The Poison of Polygamy:Genre of the English Translation

When the Chinese-language The Poison of Polygamy was translated into English,some critics identified the work as picaresque.Skeptical of this conclusion,the author of this paper broadens the field of inquiry to suggest classification in an emigrant sensational genre.Briefly,the first two plots of the multi-strand work unfold the adventures of Chinese emigrants travelling by sea and land to Melbourne’s Gold Mountain.Interestingly,we are also afforded a glimpse of emigrant miners’cooperation regardless of race and colour when a mine disaster occurs.The work provides sharp recognition of migrants’dilemmas,such as marriage,before tackling the bigamy issue,the gender war,the fallen lifestyle of the female protagonist and so on.As the work unfolds,further shocking tales of murders and indulgence are revealed.Unlike the picareque’s episodic style,the translated Poison of Polygamy is coherent,realistic,serious and critical,and completely lacking in both sarcasm and playfulness.To investigate the appropriateness of assigning the work to the picaresque genre,the paper compares briefly with representative Spanish picaresque works such as Lazarillo and Gusman and English canonical Moll Flanders,watching carefully for commonalities.However,The Poison of Polygamy would seem to resonate more with Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret,a sensational fiction which shocked the English world in the 1860s.The contexts of both novels are close,mid-Victorian and Edwardian,where the latter is a continuation of the Victorians.The author is further enlightened by research results of literary translators who advocate that a text,once translated into a target language,becomes a canon of that culture and is cherished as such by its readers-as in the case of Shakespeare being revered as a German poet when read in translation.From this experiment the paper deems that cross-lingual comparative literature is not only possible but significant and resourceful.

A Cognitive Account of Metaphor Translation in Two Chinese Versions of The Wind in the Willows

Cognitive Metaphor Theory(CMT), originally formulated by Lakoff and Johnson in 1980, rejects the traditional view of metaphor being a rhetorical phenomenon, and redefines it as a cognitive instrument by which humans perceive, categorize, and conceptualize the world.The cognitive method of metaphor studies offers an innovative research perspective on metaphor translation, which is more a process of reproducing in the target language the mapping relations of the original metaphor than a simple transplantation of the concept on the linguistic level.Metaphor is one of the most common figures of speech in children's literature, but its translation is not as effortless as it might be, for translators have to take into account not only factors such as linguistic, cultural, and social differences, but also children's limited linguistic level and cognitive abilities, which altogether pose a formidable challenge to translators.This paper attempts to construct a cognitive metaphor translation model by exploring the cognitive process that translators go through when dealing with metaphor from the perspective of CMT.The cognitive metaphor translation process is specified as including three steps: metaphor comprehension, metaphor adjustment, and metaphor reconstruction.By analyzing metaphor examples extracted from two Chinese versions of The Wind in the Willows, a masterpiece of Kenneth Grahame in children's literature of Britain, this article summarizes metaphor translation techniques in children's literature.

Study on the Application of Gestalt Theory in CLT

CLT is an activity of aesthetic representation,in which the translators undertake analysis,synthesis,and reconstruction of the aesthetic qualities inherent in the original work until the representation of these aesthetic qualities is achieved.Gestalt theory could help the translator to represent aesthetic qualities of the source text in the target text in CLT.

中国当代儿童文学海外传播模式初探——以曹文轩《青铜葵花》为例

2016年,曹文轩斩获“国际安徒生奖”,成为中国儿童文学走向海外的“代言人”,在中国文化“走出去”的大背景下具有重要意义。以其代表作《青铜葵花》为例,通过梳理该作品输出到海外世界的历程以及读者的接受程度,进一步从作品本身、译介主体和海外推广方式3个方面对中国儿童文学海外传播的有效模式进行了探索,提出了建议。

文化自信背景下中国儿童文学翻译综述及展望

翻译作为一种促进不同文化间交流的工具,对文学的发展起到了重要的推动作用,其中就包含中国儿童文学的萌芽和发展。同时,社会整体环境的发展变换也影响着翻译,回顾中国社会的现代化历程,我们也能发现其对本土儿童文学产生了举足轻重的影响。该文旨在通过历时性研究的方法,将中国儿童文学翻译的发展历程大致分为4个阶段,分析在社会整体大环境的影响下,中国儿童文学翻译的萌芽、发展、反思及未来的展望,旨在归纳过去发展脉络,总结他国儿童文学发展经验,反思当前发展不足,为新时代中国优秀儿童文学作品外译,为新时代讲好中国故事助力。

论儿童文学翻译批评的框架

建立系统、有效的方法论参照框架是儿童文学翻译批评能够理性、健康发展的前提。本文通过对儿童文学翻译批评标准、分析工具、批评参数和批评方法等关键要素的研究探讨建立儿童文学翻译批评的框架。首先,我们结合儿童文学翻译的本质特征和内在要求提出了儿童文学翻译批评的标准——儿童本位的等效翻译,然后确立了基于社会符号学意义理论的翻译批评分析工具,并设立了准确性、可读性和儿童文学性三个具体参数,最后提出了儿童文学翻译批评的方法——综合分析+文本分析结合法。

爱国主义与文化传播的使命意识——杰出翻译家朱生豪翻译莎士比亚戏剧探微

朱生豪翻译莎士比亚戏剧过程表现出的是爱国主义的担当责任与文化传播的使命意识,他翻译的莎士比亚戏剧在中国莎学史与中国翻译史上具有里程碑的意义。

20世纪90年代外国儿童文学译介

改革开放后,尤其是进入90年代,译介外国儿童文学再一次形成热潮,极大地促进了中国儿童文学的整体发展。本文对20世纪90年代我国译介的外国儿童文学作品做了系统的研究,重点考察了图书的译介数量、种类和出版情况,勾勒出90年代外国儿童文学的翻译概况,并剖析了这一时期儿童文学的译介特点。

中国儿童文学师夷说

从儿童文学译介的角度,以近30年儿童文学的译介成就为重点,描述了中国儿童文学发展,尤其是共和国建国以后60年其发展路子由狭窄而宽阔的曲折历程,论证了20世纪中国儿童文学自觉接受普世观念,汇入世界儿童文学潮流的必然性和必要性,以纪念我国改革开放30周年。

儿童文学翻译与译者主体性——以赵元任译《阿丽思漫游奇境记》为例

译者主体性主要表现在文化因素的影响、译者的价值观和对目的语的把握能力上。儿童文学的翻译受译者主体性的直接影响,这表现在译者接受原著和审美再创作的过程中。赵元任先生选择翻译《阿丽思漫游奇境记》很大一部分原因是出于对作品的偏好,这体现了译者对文本的偏好影响其对译本的选择。在翻译过程中,赵元任充分发挥了其主体创造性,再现了原文中诗歌、文字游戏等的语言美、形式美,体现了译者主体性对翻译原则以及翻译策略选择的主导。儿童文学翻译的译者主体性发挥,其最终目的是要更好地再现原作中的美学价值。

中国当代儿童文学在英语国家的译介模式探析——以曹文轩《青铜葵花》英译本为例

近年来,随着中国儿童文学版权输出步伐的加快,曹文轩、沈石溪、高洪波、杨红樱、黑鹤等当代儿童文学作家的作品被翻译成多种语言,版权输出从传统的亚洲市场拓展至欧美市场。2016年曹文轩荣获国际安徒生奖,更是成为中国儿童文学"走出去"的重要标志。本文以2015英国沃克出版公司出版的《青铜葵花》英译本为研究对象,从译介的主体、内容、途径、受众以及效果这五个方面展开,探讨英国译者汪海岚(Helen Wang)的英文译作如何成功跨越语言和文化障碍,被英国的年轻读者喜爱并接受,由此探讨中国当代儿童文学在英语世界的有效译介模式。

我国儿童文学图书出版现状及思考——基于2009—2014年儿童图书出版统计数据的分析

针对我国儿童文学图书出版繁荣背后存在的危机和挑战,寻找相应解决对策,以促进我国儿童文学图书可持续健康发展。以北京开卷信息技术有限公司提供的2009—2014年上半年少儿书业数据为依据,对近年来国内儿童文学图书出版现状进行分析,并对儿童文学出版业存在的问题提出建议和对策。在文学市场化进程不可避免的历史趋势下,有必要提倡儿童文学创作和出版的儿童本位理念,以保持文学自身的品位和格调;出版社还应充分利用公共出版文化资源,多维开发循环利用;还要有大胆"走出去"的魄力和理性"拿来主义"的胆识,以稳步推进我国儿童文学图书出版的可持续健康发展。

论童谣的语言特色及其英译——兼评何兰德对《孺子歌图》的编译

童谣是民间口头文学和儿童文学的一种,其翻译长期以来未受到应有的重视。本文通过分析清末何德兰(Isaac Taylor Headland)所编译的《孺子歌图》探讨童谣的语言特色及其英译问题。文章指出语体风格、语言特点、独特句法等对童谣的翻译具有重要影响。