Stylistic approaches to literary translation : with particular reference to English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation
This thesis reports a study applying stylistics in the analysis and assessment of literary translation, with specific reference to translations between English and Chinese. It focuses on how to maintain the original style in the translation â in terms of techniques or linguistic features in the literary texts and their correspondent functions â and on how to assess the style of the individual translation and translator as measured by quantitative data derived from corpus linguistic analyses. The thesis starts with an overview of the specific challenges of literary translation and the value of stylistics as an approach assisting in a better understanding of the literary texts, which shows the need for using stylistics in literary translation. It then illustrates how to apply stylistics in literary translation, taking the examples of central stylistic phenomena such as metaphor, free indirect speech, heteroglossia, repetition, and transitivity in the English translations of the celebrated Chinese novellaăéżQæ­ŁäŒ ă(The True Story of Ah Q) (Lu Xun, 1921) and in the Chinese translations of the English short stories âTwo Gallantsâ and âThe Deadâ (Joyce, 1914). I investigate the distinguishable
Huang, Xiaocong
P Philology. Linguistics
Stylistic approaches to literary translation : with particular reference to English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation. This thesis reports a study applying stylistics in the analysis and assessment of literary translation, with specific reference to translations between English and Chinese. It focuses on how to maintain the original style in the translation â in terms of techniques or linguistic features in the literary texts and their correspondent functions â and on how to assess the style of the individual translation and translator as measured by quantitative data derived from corpus linguistic analyses. The thesis starts with an overview of the specific challenges of literary translation and the value of stylistics as an approach assisting in a better understanding of the literary texts, which shows the need for using stylistics in literary translation. It then illustrates how to apply stylistics in literary translation, taking the examples of central stylistic phenomena such as metaphor, free indirect speech, heteroglossia, repetition, and transitivity in the English translations of the celebrated Chinese novellaăéżQæ­ŁäŒ ă(The True Story of Ah Q) (Lu Xun, 1921) and in the Chinese translations of the English short stories âTwo Gallantsâ and âThe Deadâ (Joyce, 1914). I investigate the distinguishable
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