| With economic and cultural globalization increasing, communication and cooperationbetween China and other countries has become frequent. Meanwhile, Chinese culture isattracting worldwide attention, which denotes an unprecedented importance of internationalcultural publicity and translation of cultural materials. As one of the most effective ways ofpublicity, television programs inevitably play a crucial role in cultural transmission, whichendows the translation of documentary Peking Opera with a far-reaching significance.With the characteristics of colloquialism, synchronization as well as instantaneity, subtitletranslation is different from common literary translation. Compared with other televisionprograms, documentary subtitle tends to be more formal. Therefore, subtitle translation ofdocumentaries should be distinguished from translation of television programs and generalprinted works. Only on that basis can we make some appropriate adjustments in translationmethods.This practical report elaborates on the writer’s subtitle translation of documentary PekingOpera. What involves in this translation process covers knowledge in terms of both languagesand strategies, ranging from language features of documentary subtitles, culture differences andtranslation theories and strategies. This report starts from background exploration of the writer’stranslating task, and then detailed explanation of documentary subtitle translation. Taskdescription, process description will follow to usher the analysis with illustrations of translationstrategies and methods being used in the process of translation. As to the case analysis,translation strategies are selected mainly according to respects of the subtitle features of PekingOpera and cultural connotations. Under the guidance of the communicative translation theory,the writer attempts to attach great importance to the reader of the target text. The report has itclear that in the practical translation of documentary Peking Opera, whether the cultural factorsin the source text need to be deleted or kept should also be decided according to thecommunication requirements, translation aim and target audience. In order to achieve a goodtranslation effect, the writer also follows principles of conciseness and synchronization in thewhole translation process. The writer hopes that her English version for documentary PekingOpera will present authentic charm of Peking Opera to the target audience, and thus promotefurther development of documentary subtitle translation. |
