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On Yang Xianyi And Gladys Yang's Translation Of Lu Xun's Selected Short Stories From The Perspective Of Nida's Functional Equivalence

Posted on:2007-02-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185494066Subject:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Functional Equivalence is the core of Eugene A. Nida's translation theory. It had great impact on Translation Studies in the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the theories which were introduced into China at an early time. So its influence in Translation Studies in China is profound. With the spread of the influence of Translation Studies, the scope that Translation Studies engaged in expands. However, the role of Functional Equivalence in guiding translation can by no means be ignored. The purpose of this thesis is to help readers appreciate the translation of Lu Xun's Selected Short Stories better and also get the translation skills used by the famous translators through the study in Yang Xinayi and Gladys Yang's translation from the perspective Nida's Functional Equivalence and at the same time, confirm the guiding role of Nida's Functional Equivalence in translation practice.Functional Equivalence includes three aspects: meaning, style and reader's response. Compared with translation theory put forward before, Functional Equivalence brings translation into the field of linguistics but at the same time, it introduces culture and reader's response into translation studies. Functional Equivalence based on the equivalence of meaning and style emphasizes that the receptors should respond to the TL message with substantially the same manner to the SL receptors do to the original. Reader's response is the criterion that evaluates the quality of translations. This thesis explores Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang's Translation of Lu Xun's Selected Short Stories on different linguistic levels. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang's translation achieves Functional Equivalence to the...
Keywords/Search Tags:Functional Equivalence, Equivalence of meaning, Equivalence of style, reader's response, translation
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