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On Translation of Cultural Elements in Children’s Literature

Author: LiuGuoSheng
Tutor: WangShuTing
School: China University of Petroleum
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Children's Literature Cultural factors Alienation Teleological Relevance Theory Context Effect Processing effort
CLC: I046
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Abstract


The 17th century in Europe people began to realize the unique identity of the children recognize that children have their own characteristics, interests and needs. Accompanied children, children's literature and developed. Awareness of children in China began in the early twentieth century, and since then, a large number of foreign works of children's literature was introduced to China to promote the emergence and development of children's literature. Generations of Chinese children growing up in the influence of many of the world's outstanding works of children's literature. These works enrich the spiritual world of children, and also so that the children have been educated. Foreign works of children's literature is bound to contain a wealth of foreign cultural factors. The translation of these cultural factors related to whether the child can easily understand the work and produce the desired effect. The children referred to in this article refers to 6-12 years, that is the children of the primary school stage. They are gradually gained the ability to read independently, with a certain degree of social and cultural knowledge, and have a strong sense of curiosity and a desire to understand the world. They live in the era of cultural globalization, the culture of the world is far from a steady stream through a variety of ways to approach and influence them. They are no longer unfamiliar and difficult to understand foreign cultures. So today's children's literature in translation and cultural factors Translation Strategy should be different from the previous era. In this paper, the basic translation strategies through analysis of impact of cultural factors that alienation and Naturalization select major factors: the purpose of the translation, the reader to accept the level of social ideology, text type, the following conclusions: In the context of today's cultural globalization, foreign cultural factors in children's literature should be preserved as much as possible, in order to adapt to the needs of the times and the characteristics of contemporary children, taking into account also their ability to accept. In other words, the cultural factors in the translation of foreign children's literature should mainly alienation, complemented by naturalization omitted. On this basis, this article especially associated theory in translation as a guide, presented in the to use alienation main naturalization and omitted supplemented the translation strategy, should give full consideration to children's cognitive environment, so that the Chinese Children can be achieved with minimal processing effort the largest context effect. As a theoretical basis for analysis and comparison of four Chinese translation of \Or should naturalized or omitted.

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