美國新聞期刊中的漢語文化項翻譯

英語論文編號:YY560  論文字數:5897.頁數:22

Contents
1．Introduction 1
2.  Literature Review 2
2.1  Culture and Translation 2
2.2  Cultural translation studies in China 2
2.3  Cultural translation studies in the West 3
 3.  News and Translation of Culture-specific Items 5
3.1  The U.S. news media 5
3.2  Translation studies on culture-specific items from different perspectives 6
4  Profile of Chinese Culture-specific Items 8
4.1  Politics-related items 8
4.2  Economy-related items 8
4.3  Other items 9
4.4  Translation methods of culture-specific items 9
5  Cultural Analysis of the News Translation Strategies 13
5.1  Briefing on the News Translation Strategies --- domesticating and foreignising 13
5.2  Underlying factors using the foreignising strategies in translation 14
6.  Conclution 16
Acknowledgements 17
References 18

摘    要
 《時代周刊》和《新聞周刊》作為美國發行量最大的兩本新聞期刊在美國及全世界擁有眾多讀者，具有廣泛的影響力。兩本期刊報道中國時無疑會涉及到漢語文化專有項，其翻譯對于傳播中國文化具有重要意義。本文從文化與翻譯的關系入手，運用Venuti的異化、歸化理論和Lefvere的意識形態理論，分析了美國新聞期刊英譯漢語文化項的主要方法和策略并探討其優缺點，進而分析了影響其翻譯策略的因素。筆者發現，美國新聞期刊在處理漢語文化項時，靈活運用多種翻譯方法，但是仍盡可能地保留漢語語言的特點，表現出了異化的傾向，這對于傳播中國語言文化起了重要作用。論文從讀者因素、譯者本身、新聞報道目的和意識形態四個方面分析了這種傾向的原因,同時指出美國新聞期刊中漢語文化專有項的英譯并非完全可以借鑒，其中也不乏有錯譯或不準確的翻譯。最后，筆者將對漢語文化項英譯提出自己的觀點,希望能給漢譯英教學及實踐提供一些借鑒。
 
 
關鍵詞: 美國新聞期刊； 漢語文化項； 翻譯策略； 意識形態

ABSTRACT
 As the top two U.S. newsmagazines, Time and Newsweek have huge readership around the world, and hence Chinese culture-specific items dealt with in their reports are important for spreading Chinese culture. Proceeding from the relation betweeen culture and translation,this thesis summarizes the translation methods of Chinese culture-specific items adopted in the U.S. newsmagazines. With the aid of Venuti’s theory of domesticating and foreignising strategies, the author points out that the U.S. newsmagazines prefer the foreignising strategy to deal with Chinese culture-specific items. Then the thesis tries to explain four underlying factors leading to this preference, i.e, readership, translator, purpose of the news and ideology. Due to ideological influence, the translations in the U.S. newsmagazines are not necessarily proper and sufficient. To sum up, wirter will give a general view of the study on translation methods of Chinese culture-specific items for reference to the Chinese-English translation teaching and practice.
 
Keywords：U.S. newsmagazine；Chinese culture-specific items；translation strategy；ideology