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A Descriptive Study On Two Chinese Versions Of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn From A Perspective Of Language

Posted on:2012-06-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374487675Subject:English Language and Literature
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By adopting a descriptive and comparative approach, the thesis aims at exploring the correlations between translators’decision-making process in fiction translation and the socio-cultural contexts in which translations are produced based on the theories of the Manipulation School and Andre Lefevere’s. To better illustrate the author’s point, a comparative study will be made between two different versions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The first is that of1954translated by Zhang Wanli and the later one of1989translated by Cheng Shi. Such a study lays emphasis on revealing the diachronic differences and exploring what lies behind them. The investigator compares the two translated texts on the translators’choice of the novel for translation, on their language styles and their translational strategies. Meanwhile it also specifies the time-bound conditions related to literary translation by reconstructing the contexts where the two translations are produced. Instead of dealing with linguistic issues in the translations and thereby making judgment as to which version is more acceptable, the major concern of this study is to provide certain explanations to such questions as:why the two translators translated in different ways and how they translated it. The evidence based on this study provides us with valid reasons to believe that the act of translating is usually constrained by certain socio-cultural factors in the overall environment and that translators tend to produce translations, echoing the requirements of the dominant ideology and the general poetic tendency as a whole.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, translation process, strategies, ideology, descriptive study
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