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Translation Strategies For Culture-Specific Items In Hippies:a Guide To An American Subculture

Posted on:2016-06-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R L SuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330467991063Subject:Translation
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Culture-specific items (CSIs), which are conceived in different cultural and historical backgrounds, have always been a difficulty in translation. When translated into another language, CSIs may be felt differently by the receiving culture from the exporting culture, thus causing confusions or even misunderstandings. All these require the translator to convey the message in a CSI accurately with a comprehensible and readable translation. Among many translation theories about CSIs put forward at home and abroad, Javier Franco Aixela’s theory is quite representative. His definition of CSI is relatively more scientific and accurate, and the eleven strategies applied to CSIs in translation are detailed and practical.The author of this thesis applies Aixela’s strategies for translating CSIs in the E-C translation of an excerpt from Hippies:a Guide to an American Subculture. To choose the suitable strategies for the CSIs in this text, the author analyzed the text from the four parameters mentioned by Aixela, which are supratextual parameter, textual parameter, the nature of the CSI and intratextual parameter. In the process of translation, conservation strategies are more frequently used than substitution strategies. This author has found that Aixela’s conservation strategies are very helpful in the translation of humanities and social science works, especially strategies like repetition, extratextual gloss, intratextual gloss and linguistic (non-cultural) translation. However, Aixela’s substitution strategies such as absolute universalization, deletion and autonomous creation may not be applicable to the translation of CSIs in humanities and social science works.
Keywords/Search Tags:culture-specific item, translation strategies, Aixela
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