Strategies in Translating Cultural-specific Terms with a case study of the Film -- Mulan 英语毕业论文

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1、StrategiesinTranslatingCultural-specificTermswithacasestudyoftheFilm--MulanIntroductionAnimportantconsensushasalreadyachievedthattranslationengagesinnotmerelyaninterlingualtransfer,butalsoacross-culturalcommunication(Lian,2007:313).Asaculturalactivity,translationmix

2、esatleasttwocultures,whichimpliesthatinevitablyithastodealwiththevariabilityfactorcreatedbydifferentcultures,i.e.aseriesofhabits,valuejudgments,classificationsystems,etc.ineachnational-linguisticcommunity(Aixelá,2007:52-3).Cultural-specificterms(CSTs),whichgenerally

3、includelocalinstitutions,streets,historicalfigures,placenames,personalnames,periodicals,worksofart,etc.,representonesignificantepitomeofthis‘culturalasymmetry’betweentwolinguisticcommunities.HowtodealwithCSTsprovokesheateddiscussionsamongacademicworldoftranslation.S

4、trategieslikedomesticationandforeignisationfromLawrenceVenutiandmorespecificallyconservationandsubstitutionfromJavierFrancoAixeláhavemadeoutstandingcontributionstoconstructingframeworksforCSTstranslation.Thepurposeofthispaperisinitiallytopresentstrategiesintranslati

5、ngCSTsraisedbyVenutiandAixelá.SubsequentlyacasestudywillbeintroducedtoillustratehowthesestrategiesareappliedtotranslateChineseCSTsinthefilmMulan.14/14Venuti:Domestication&ForeignizationLawrenceVenuti’swork,particularlyinTheTranslator’sInvisibility:aHistoryofTranslat

6、ion(2006),hasfocusedonthedichotomybetweenwhathetermsas‘domesticating’and‘foreignizing’translation.ThisdichotomyofdomesticationandforeignizationarefrequentlymentionedinrelationtoCSTstranslation.Domesticationimpliesthatthetranslator’sobjectistogivereadersofthetargette

7、xt(TT)theillusionthatitwasoriginallywritteninthetargetlanguage(TL),whereasforeignizationattemptstoofferchallengestotheTLreadersbyconfrontingthedissimilaritiesbetweensourceandtargetlanguagecultures(ibid:15).Venutihimselfadvocatedforeignizationwhilehebelievedthattheun

8、derlyingimplicationoftheprevalenceof‘domesticating’translationintheEnglish-speakingworldisanattitudeofsuperioritytowardsothercultureswhose