A Report On The C-E Translation Of A Fox Good At Doing Business With People:From The Perspective Of Reception Theory

In recent years,animal novels have been prevalent,attracting the attention of young readers especially children.With the advance of cultural exchange with foreign countries,it’s necessary to introduce Chinese animal novels to foreign children in order to broaden their reading horizons and make more and more people understand the characteristics of Chinese animal novels,and further spread Chinese culture.However,the author finds that there are not many domestic translations of animal novels,and studies on the translation of animal novels are even less.Since the target readers are children,issues in translations of animal novels are different from those of other novels.This report is based on the Chinese to English translation of three excerpts of an animal novel A Fox Good at Doing Business with People created by Shen Shixi,a famous children’s literature writer with many great animal novels.Animals in these stories are personified,and the language of the source text is vivid,humorous,and colloquial.According to the Chinese-English translation practice about these three stories in this novel,this report,through case study,mainly analyzes several issues in terms of translation of vocabularies and phrases,sentences,and environmental descriptions under the guidance of three main concepts in Reception Theory namely horizon of expectations,the central role of readers,and blanks and indeterminacy,which are mainly represented by Jauss and Iser.Finally,several translation strategies are summarized,such as amplification,omission,conversion and preservation in paraphrase in order to provide some references to the translation of animal novels.