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A Study on Cultural Correspondence Strategies in Subtitling Translation with Principles of Equivalence a Case Study Based on Gone with the Wind

Author: ChenChunXiang
Tutor: XiaoDan
School: Southwestern University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Functional Equivalence Principle Cultural corresponding policy English Subtitles Subtitling
CLC: H315.9
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


Film and television work is an indispensable part of modern life. Enjoy foreign film and television works will help promote mutual understanding and communication between different cultures, and thus, the translation of the film and television works gradually on the rise in recent years. Subtitling is a common form of audiovisual translation. More widely in Europe, based on the pattern of the particularity of the language, the launching of the theoretical research and in-depth, also has formed a certain degree of consensus and norms in terms of translation strategies, translation norms and quality control. In contrast, China in Subtitle Translation Studies seem more lag, lack of industry standards. Translators currently on the market independently, the uneven quality of the translation is not conducive to the healthy development of subtitle translation. A high degree of correlation of the language and culture determines the the cultural vocabulary subtitle translation importance. Accumulation of different cultures in their own language will clearly show up and show the relative independence, which makes the translation can not reproduce the original primitive culture specific relationship, which is the translation of cultural factors. The cross-cultural translation is the translation theorists at home and abroad a new topic. The conventional wisdom is that the center of gravity of the translation is the conversion between the two languages, then ignore the importance of cultural translation. In fact, the greatest difficulty encountered by the translator in the translation process is not a language, but rather culture. In this paper, starting from a cross-cultural perspective, the cultural corresponding phenomenon, analyzed explore English Subtitles Nida's Functional Equivalence Principle, and the words of the different cultures in the subtitle translation translation appropriate to adopt countermeasures summarized. Divided on the basis of the different categories of cultural words, take full account of the particularity of the movie, the culture of the words corresponding grouped into five categories, that space-time corresponds to the identity of the corresponding rhetoric corresponding corresponding corresponding to the religious ideology and culture imagery. Discussion and demonstration of every culture corresponding analysis and movie clips instance, helps translators translate cultural vocabulary and cultural phenomenon Subtitles clearer understanding, in order to be more clear in the movie subtitle translation process grasp handle the translation of cultural vocabulary. Subtitling is a purposeful behavior. The subtitle translation task under the constraints of time and space, according to the director and the playwright's intent (through a screen and performance style) to most effectively convey the most relevant information to the audience in a particular cultural background. Explore \cultural potential accept the force to determine the wording of the subtitle, and eventually reach a not only the purpose of cultural transmission of the source text into the target language culture, but also the most concise language to maximize the authentic movie is presented to the audience. In fact, there is an irreconcilable contradiction, how to achieve a balance between the two became a relentless pursuit of the goal of the translator is only through constant practice and summarized it be possible to achieve or close to this target. In this paper, empirical analysis, especially in the fifth chapter of the famous American movie \This article aims to initiate translators want to be able to cause further attention in cultural perspective Subtitles translate to better play the communicative function of its cross-cultural communication.

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