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Russian And Chinese Translation Studies Explain

Posted on:2015-02-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L WeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2265330431456503Subject:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Translation variation theory, which has been put forward in recent years, is a newtheory about the translation strategy based on accommodative theories. Accommodativemethods includes addition, reduce, edition, report, condensation, combination,adaptation, imitation. In the eight of accommodative methods addition corresponds thetranslation variation strategies like translation and report, translation and comment,explanatory translation, translation and writing.Explanatory translation means “explanation+translation”. Explanatorytranslation is a translation variation active that according to the specific needs of readerstranslator by using addition accommodation method explains unreleased compressedcultural information, which cloud cause readers understand with difficulties. Theexplained objects of explanatory translation could be words, phrases, sentences,paragraphs, and even sections and chapters, books. And the language unites like words.phrases, sentences, paragraphs, sections and chapters cloud be used to constituteexplanation. In actual operation translator should select those language units basedvarious factors like original work, translation work and readers. Characteristics ofexplanatory translation is adding content which is not exist in original works to uncoverunreleased compressed cultural information, explain difficult concepts. The differencebetween explanatory translation and traditional translation is that the former melt theexplanation into translation without leaving any trace, and without using any notes.Smartly using explanatory translation strategy could make works of translation morereadable, acceptable, affluent, and friendly.At present study about explanatory translation is not quite systematic in the world.It still has a lot of questions about to be solved. Author of this research intend to fromdefining connotation and denotation of explanatory translation, then explore thetranslation variation units, process, accommodation mechanism of explanatorytranslation, and summarize pattern, build complete system of explanatory translationmethods, provide guidance and theoretical basis for the practice of translation variation.
Keywords/Search Tags:translation variation, addition, explanatory translation, method system
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