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1、Therestrictionscontextimposesontranslationintermsofmeaningselectionandstylereproduction1.IntroductionInChina,thefilmAmericanBeautyistranslatedinto“美国丽人.”Infact,it’satranslationerror.It’safilmthatreflectsthemalemiddleagecrisisandhasnothingtodowithAmericanbeauty,so
2、peoplewhohavewatchedthefilmmaybereallypuzzledbyitsChinesename.TheoriginaltitleAmericanBeautyindeedmakespeoplerelatethefilmtobeautifulwoman.Actually,AmericanBeautyherereferstoaredrose.Thisisthereasonwhyitistheredrosesinsteadofbeautiesthatemergefromthefilmcontinual
3、ly.Ourlivesarefullofsuchincorrecttranslationwhichmisleadstheviewers,evenintheliterarytranslationandoraltranslation.(FengYoulan,1983:23)Admittedly,ithasacommercialproductfactor,butthemostimportantfactoristhetranslator’signoranceofthecontext’srestrictionsonthetrans
4、lation.Thesuccessofthetranslationisoftendeterminedbythecontextseeminglyinsignificant.Thepaperintendstodemonstratetherestrictionscontextimposesontranslationintermsofmeaningselectionandstylereproduction.2.ContextAnalysisandMeaningSelectionContextplaysanimportantrol
5、einlanguagestudyandhasanimportantrestrictivefunctionfortranslationprocess.Itcontainsdifferentmeaningsaccordingtodifferentlinguists.Onthebasisofthereferencestotheinternalandexternalresearchresultsoncontext,itcanbedefinedas:Contextisthecomprehensiveintegrationoflin
6、guisticknowledgeandnon-linguisticknowledgedependedbyanynaturallanguageexpressions.Accordingtothedefinition,contextcanbedividedintolinguisticcontextandnon-linguisticcontext.Anycontextcanalmostberegardedasthemutualfunctionofthelinguisticcontextandnon-linguisticcont
7、ext,sothesetwokindsofcontextdeterminetheselectionofmeaningsinthelinguisticcommunicativeactivities.Duringtheprocessoflinguisticcommunication,themeaningisnolongerthesentence’smeaningwithoutspecificcontext,butbecomingtolinkwithcontextclosely.Translationasthelinguist
8、iccommunicativeactivitiesaimstoconveythemeaningsbetweentwolanguagesoccurringinthecontextinterweavedwithspecificlanguage,situationandcultureandisrestrictedandin
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