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Foreignization as a Strategy in Literary Translation

Author: ZhouHongHui
Tutor: WuXin
School: Southwest China Normal
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Alienation translation Translation methods Translation Theory Newmark Literary Translation Angle Text Type Translators Cultural Anthropology Intercultural Communication
CLC: I046
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2005
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Abstract

Development of human civilization has been the highlight of this day and age makes cross - cultural exchange , and translation as cross-cultural communication bridge position is becoming increasingly important ; translators shoulder the the difficult historical mission of translation theory and practice . This article is aimed at a preliminary study and translation of literary alienation . Although the translation people have different disciplines from different angles conducted in-depth study and exploration , such as from a linguistic point of view , the social linguistic point of view , a psychological point of human culture , literature criticism, aesthetics and social vocabulary the perspective , and so people have published a number of papers, but so far there is not a cover all text translation method can be widely accepted . In fact , translation is a very difficult and complex projects, especially in the face of literary translation when the work is troublesome . The good news is that we have some of the relevant theory can be used to guide the translation of literature , the famous translation theorists Mr. Newmark text theory is an example . The Newmark text classification translation has practical purposes . Although the the theory learn Büler invention , but Newmark inherited and developed the doctrine and practice . The text is divided into three types of functions : expression , information, features and call sign function . This type of text can be attributed to the type of text features in order to find a corresponding translation method . So that we can delineate the literary text types in order to find its corresponding translation . For a long time , whether to adopt a literal translation or paraphrase has been the subject of concern and controversy in the translation industry at home and abroad . But in the 1970s , the angle of the debate a historic turning point , that is, from the battle of literal and free transfer to naturalization and alienation Distinction . Through careful observation of alienation may be cultural translation is a desirable translation strategies , although there are many scholars or holistic agree to alienation or agree with the overall naturalization . At the same time the author analyzed through a large number of examples to demonstrate the feasibility of its vision . Hope that this study can play a helpful role for people engaged in literary translation .

Foreignization as a Strategy in Literary Translation

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