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On Humor Translation in Fortress Besieged from the Perspective of Functionalism

Author: ChenZhenZuo
Tutor: QiaoLongBao
School: Shanghai International Studies University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Functionalism Purpose Function Humor Encircle a city Translation
CLC: H059
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

Humor plays a soothing mood in people's lives, and create a pleasant atmosphere of an important role, but also reflect national identity and social situation of a certain period, scholars from philosophy, psychology, sociology, literary criticism were studied. With the deepening of cross-cultural communication, from the translation of humor is relatively slow. By reviewing past studies of humor translated, the authors found that the common view is that some of the verbal humor is untranslatable. Some scholars have even agreed to the shackles of language and cultural factors, humor translation with poetry translation as desperate. With the development of the theory of translation, as well as many translators constantly explore, German functionalist translation theory is used for a humorous translation and evaluation. Compared with the traditional translation theory, functionalism provides a new perspective for the translator. The functionalism stressed translate as an end in sexual behavior, must be adapted to the needs of the target language readers. Vermeer decided to translate the purpose of one of the important factors, including the needs of the target language readers the cultural background of the recipient, they look forward to as well as communicative translation requirements. The according to functionalism core theory - teleological, translation is \The authors believe that humor translation as an object of sexual behavior, and the translation strategy formulation should be able to determine the humor in the translated outline purpose. In view of this, we select some humorous examples of \Mr. Qian Zhongshu's \and the completion of the Chinese-American Mao Guoquan. As the first and currently the only English translation of the translation since its inception has been well received by the attention, general praise than criticism, the critical angle is often concentrated in a humorous style of passing. Addressed the cultural point of view from the purpose of analysis, the authors found that many seemingly unsatisfactory translation is actually the choices made by the translator in order to better achieve the purpose of the translation of the humor.

On Humor Translation in Fortress Besieged from the Perspective of Functionalism

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