Ideological Influence on Satire Translation: Comparison on Two Chinese Translations of Animal Farm by Taiwanese and Chinese Translators
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Professor Shih
Translation Projects
28 June 2011
Ideological Influence on Satire Translation: Comparison on Two Chinese Translations of Animal Farm by Taiwanese and Chinese Translators
Chapter One: Introduction In cultural turn, translation studies jump out of the equivalence between the source text and target text but started to investigate more about the nonlinguistic factors influences the translation process. Amongst these studies, ideological influences have been widely discussed. Lefevere (14) agrees that translation is a method of the representations of political stance and an entity of ideology. For George Orwell, his political satire fictions are widely translated into other languages in non-communist nations. Recently, some of his masterpieces in which his distrust of communism as well as authority is revealed have been translated in communist countries where the ideological discrepancy may influence the translation strategies. However, not many researches have pay attention to the issue. Hence, this paper is aiming at comparing the differences of two Chinese translations of Animal Farm done by a Chinese and a Taiwanese in views of ideological influence. In comparison, this paper attempts to answer the following questions:
1. How does the ideological discrepancy influence the plots in two translations?
2. How does ideological divergence influence the characters in two translations?
3. How does ideological divergence influence the rhetorical devices in two translations?
Chapter Two: Background Information of the Texts to Be Examined
In this part, the backgrounds of the author and the story are given in order to inform the readers a complete comprehension of the text to be analyzed.
1. Introduction of the author of Animal Farm George Orwell was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bengal. He was raised in a middle class family where his father served in Indian Civil Service. He spent his childhood there. The
Professor Shih
Translation Projects
28 June 2011
Ideological Influence on Satire Translation: Comparison on Two Chinese Translations of Animal Farm by Taiwanese and Chinese Translators
Chapter One: Introduction In cultural turn, translation studies jump out of the equivalence between the source text and target text but started to investigate more about the nonlinguistic factors influences the translation process. Amongst these studies, ideological influences have been widely discussed. Lefevere (14) agrees that translation is a method of the representations of political stance and an entity of ideology. For George Orwell, his political satire fictions are widely translated into other languages in non-communist nations. Recently, some of his masterpieces in which his distrust of communism as well as authority is revealed have been translated in communist countries where the ideological discrepancy may influence the translation strategies. However, not many researches have pay attention to the issue. Hence, this paper is aiming at comparing the differences of two Chinese translations of Animal Farm done by a Chinese and a Taiwanese in views of ideological influence. In comparison, this paper attempts to answer the following questions:
1. How does the ideological discrepancy influence the plots in two translations?
2. How does ideological divergence influence the characters in two translations?
3. How does ideological divergence influence the rhetorical devices in two translations?
Chapter Two: Background Information of the Texts to Be Examined
In this part, the backgrounds of the author and the story are given in order to inform the readers a complete comprehension of the text to be analyzed.
1. Introduction of the author of Animal Farm George Orwell was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bengal. He was raised in a middle class family where his father served in Indian Civil Service. He spent his childhood there. The
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