primarily in Ukraine and Russia‚ followed a different view that each developed national language has sufficient means for the comprehensive transmission of thoughts expressed by another language (K. Chukrvstkyy‚ Marshak). Another problem of the poetic translation is nonseparability of form and content on the poetry‚ and the difficulties they represent for the translator‚ especially of the poetic works‚ have been discovered. Often the form obtrudes on the interpreter a particular expression‚ that causes the
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的研究成果，通过对比英汉委婉语的语言和文化特征，对英汉委婉语作对比分析。本文将谈到语言、文化及委婉语之间的关系。从英汉委婉语的结构形式、应用范围、以及各自不同的文化作了对比。通过英汉委婉语的比较研究，我们可以了解两种语言的许多共性和个性，并对二者之间的翻译进行学习，这对于我们的外语学习，跨文化交际均有很大的指导意义。 关键词：委婉语，语言，文化，对比学习，翻译 The study on comparison and translation between English and Chinese Euphemisms Gao Hongqin Southwest University Abstract: Euphemism is one kind of figures of speech and it refers to the substitution of mild or vague or roundabout expression for harsh or direct one. As an indispensable
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GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD AND THE DIRECT METHOD In this essay I am going to give some explanations taken from different books about what a method in second language teaching is. After that I am going to explain in a brief way‚ what in my opinion a method is. Furthermore‚ I am going to set my theory in a very specific context; culture‚ country‚ education‚ system‚ characteristics of the learners… Moreover‚ I am going to define two different methods: The grammar-translation method
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The Grammar Translation Method Howatt in his book‚ The Empirical Evidence for the Influence of L1 in Interlanguage (1984: 98) points out The Classical Method (Grammar translation Method) was originally associated with the teaching of Latin and – to a much lesser extent – ancient Greek. The aim of teaching Latin and Greek was (and is) obviously not so that learners would be able to speak them. The aims were/are rather to develop : • Logical thinking • Intellectual
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A Comparative Study on Two Translations of A Mad Man’s Diary(《狂人日記》) As a heavy-weight in literature‚ Lu Xun’s works have been widely translated ever since 1926‚ when George Kin Leung first translated The Real Story of Ah Q into English. More notably‚ even for the same texts‚ several English translations have been made by different translators‚ among which prominent ones are Wang Chichen‚ the couple of Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang‚ and William A. Lyell. In light of this‚ with the aim of exploring
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include the film ‘Lost in Translation’ by Sophia Coppola made in 2003‚ the Seamus Heaney’s poems ‘Digging’ (1998) and ‘Personal Helicon’‚ and finally the illustration ‘Globalisation’ (2012) by Michael Leunig. All three delve deeply into the interplay between internal choice and external circumstance. While they do explore how circumstances can influence choices‚ ‘Lost in Translation’ has a secondary investigation of how choices can impact the circumstance. ‘Lost in Translation’ is a film that explores
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A Comparative Study of English Translations of Tu Fu’s “Chūn Wàng” As Francis K. H. So says‚ “[w]hether or not a student of Chinese literature likes pathetic style‚ he has to know Tu Fu‚ whose seven-syllable verse perhaps reaches the acme of its kind in the golden age of poetry‚” 1 translations of Tu Fu’s poetry could be more precise than others due to its popularity. Therefore‚ his five-character eight-line regulated verse “Chūn Wàng” would be discussed in the essay. There are four
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The texts that I have studied and prepared for my comparative course are: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ Translations by Brian Friel‚ and I’m not scared directed by Gabriel Salvatores. When I address the cultural context of a text I refer to the worlds of the texts‚ the circumstances which face the plots and the characters of the texts. Some elements of the cultural context of each and every text are the world’s attitudes‚ social rituals‚ and structures. Coming to grips with the general norm
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Pragmatic Analysis and Translation of English and Chinese Person Deixis 英汉人称指示语的语用分析及翻译 武汉理工大学外国语学院 李晓惠 广东培正学院 胡敏 广东广州 510830 内容摘要 对比语言学是一门从共时的角度对两种或多种语言进行对比研究的学科。本文尝试分析了语用学中的人称指示语在英语和汉语两种语言中的相同点和不同点，其中主要分析了人称指示语的先用特性及其反先用的用法。本文目的是通过对比分析，把指示语的语用理论更多的运用于翻译中去。 关键词: 英汉人称指示语‚ 先用与反先用现象‚ 翻译 Abstract Contrastive study is a branch of science concerning with two or more languages by exploring the differences and similarities in a synchronic way. This thesis is an attempt to analyze the
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Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lenk‚ Uta. 1998. Marking discourse coherence. Tubingen: Genter Narr Verlag. McEnery‚ et al Olohan‚ Maeve. 2004. Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies. London; New York: Routledge. Saldanha‚ G. 2009. Principles of corpus linguistics and their application to translation studines research Taglicht‚ Josef. 2001. Actually‚ there’s more to it than meets the eye. English Language and Linguistics 5(1): 1-16. Wehmeier‚ S. (ed). 2005. Oxford Advanced Learner‘s
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