跨文化交際視域里的紅樓夢中的食譜翻譯研究

1、 iiA Study of Menu Translation in Hong Lou Meng within the Horizon of Cross-Culture Communication: Based on the Analysis of Menu Translating Strategies in A Dream of Red Mansions by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang Postgradu

2、ate: Zhou Huabei Grade: 2007 Major Field of Study: English Language & Literature Supervisor: Professor Bai Jingze Orientation: Translation Studies & Practice Abstract in English As a famous nov

3、el in the history of Chinese literature, Hong Lou Meng is looked upon as the “Encyclopedia of Chinese Traditional Culture”. In recent years, many studies have been conducted on the translated ve

4、rsions of the novel. A Dream of Red Mansions, by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang in the late of 1970s, has won widespread acclaim both at home and abroad. In the past three decades, lots of schola

5、rs have published innumerable academic articles related to the translating strategies of Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang in A Dream of Red Mansions, among which the novel has been discussed in motile d

6、imensions, such as the poetry, the idioms, the religions and so on, however, the articles carried by different journals on the issue of menu translating strategies adopted by Yang Xianyi and

7、Gladys Yang in A Dream of Red Mansions are not as many as we expect. As the “Encyclopedia of Chinese Traditional Culture”, Hong Lou Meng presents a panoramic view of menu, which epitomizes the exten

8、sive and spectacular Chinese dietetic culture. At present, Chinese menu translation is in disorder and at the will of anyone who does it, so it is quite necessary to make a study of how to

9、 translate Chinese menu. As a couple, Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang enjoyed a high reputation in translating Chinese traditional literary works. That is why this dissertation relies on the langu

10、age materials collected from the English translation of A Dream of Red Mansions by Yang Xianyi and his wife. And it attempts to probe into the menu translating strategies adopted by the renowned husband- an

11、d- wife translators. It also attempts to provide effective methods for translating Chinese menu. The approach adopted to this research is philosophized thinking on the basis of analysis of langua

12、ge materials. Through a thoroughgoing and penetrating study, it has been discovered that Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang mainly adopted the strategy of word- for- word translation or literal translat