To Foreignize or To Domesticate10

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1、ToForeignizeorToDomesticateAbstract1：Domesticatingtranslationandforeignizingtranslationaretwodifferenttranslationstrategies.Theformerreferstothetranslationstrategyinwhichatransparent,fluentstyleisadoptedinordertominimizethestrangenessoftheforeigntextfortar

2、getlanguagereaders,whilethelatterdesignatesthetypeoftranslationinwhichatargettextdeliberatelybreakstargetconventionsbyretainingsomethingoftheforeignessoftheoriginal.ButwhatisthetranslationpracticelikeinChina?Dotranslatorstendtouseforeignizingmethodsordomes

3、ticatingones?Whatarethefactorsthataffecttheirdecisionmaking?ThispapertriestofindanswerstothequestionsbylookingintothetranslationofEnglishmetaphorsintoChinese.Keywords:domesticatingtranslation;foreignizingtranslation;metaphor;targetlanguagereader1.Introduct

4、ion"Domesticatingtranslation"and"foreignizingtranslation"arethetermscoinedbyL.Venuti(1995)todescribethetwodifferenttranslationstrategies.Theformerreferstothetranslationstrategyinwhichatransparent,fluentstyleisadoptedinordertominimizethestrangenessofthefore

5、igntextfortargetlanguagereaders,whilethelatterdesignatesthetypeoftranslationinwhichatargettext"deliberatelybreakstargetconventionsbyretainingsomethingoftheforeignessoftheoriginal"(Shuttleworth&Cowie,1997:59).TherootsofthetermscanbetracedbacktotheGermanphil

6、osopherSchleiermacher’sargumentthatthereareonlytwodifferentmethodsoftranslation,"eitherthetranslatorleavestheauthorinpeace,asmuchaspossible,andmovesthereadertowardshim;orheleavesthereaderinpeace,asmuchaspossible,andmovestheauthortowardshim"(Venuti,1995:19-

7、20).Theterms"foreignization"and"domestication"maybenewtotheChinese,buttheconceptstheycarryhavebeenatleastforacenturyattheheartofmosttranslationcontroversies.LuXun(鲁迅)oncesaidthat"beforetranslating,thetranslatorhastomakeadecision:eithertoadapttheoriginaltex

8、tortoretainasmuchaspossibletheforeignflavouroftheoriginaltext"(Xu,inLuo,1984:315).ButwhatisthetranslationpracticelikeinChina?RecentlyIhavereadtwoarticleswhichshowcompletelyconflictingviewsonthisquestion.Inhis