Perspective Of Functional Equivalence Research Articles

Comparative Analysis of Two English Translations of “Moonlight Over the Lotus Pond” From the Perspective of Functional Equivalence

Comparative Analysis of Two English Translations of “Moonlight Over the Lotus Pond” From the Perspective of Functional Equivalence

Prose Translation Strategy Study from Chinese to English from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence

Prose works boast rich cultural connotation, loose structure, free form of expression. There are great cultural differences between Chinese culture and West culture; English pays attention to hypotaxis and strictly obeys the grammatical expression norms. Achieving complete equivalence between the original text and the translated text when translating Chinese prose works into English is difficult. Nida's functional equivalence theory emphasizes that grammatical accuracy and literal corresponding should not be attached great importance in translation but that the reaction of the readers to the translation should be essentially like that of the original readers, which effectively reduces the conversion between the source language and target language of objective standard and furthest achieves functional equivalence between the original text and translated text and effectively solves the problems in the process of prose translation. Under the guidance of functional equivalence theory, four strategies for prose translation from the lexical, syntactic, discourse and stylistic levels are proposed in this paper, which are lexical transformation, sentence structure changing, constituent addition, holistic consideration.

Translation of Literary Novels from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence: A Case Study of Hoping

Cultural confidence is a popular topic, which is reflected in all aspects of social life, especially in the field of translation. In recent years, the overall trend of translation in China has shifted from the translation of foreign famous works to the translation of domestic works into foreign languages, making Chinese culture go global. Among all types of translation, literary translation is always difficult. Under the guidance of functional equivalence theory, the application of appropriate translation methods and strategies is conducive to solving translation difficulties, making foreign readers better feel the charm of Chinese culture, so as to spread Chinese culture and enhance cultural confidence.

Documentary Subtitle Chinese-English Translation from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence: A Study on the Documentary China’s Fight against Covid-19

This paper adopts Nida's Functional Equivalence theory and studies the Chinese-English subtitle translation of the documentary China’s Fight against Covid-19, which was filmed and broadcast throughout China amid the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020, and it received positive responses in the country. The research objective is to find out the translation strategies, methods and skills involved in achieving the “most natural” and the “most closest” English expressions to the Chinese source text. In the study, investigations on the equivalence of Lexical level, Syntactical level, Contextual level and Textual level in the subtitle are conducted respectively, and the aforementioned translation aspects are discussed under the guidance of Nida’s functional equivalence. The key findings are that the translated texts adopt literal and liberal translation to deal with the Culture-loaded words and four-character idioms on a lexical level. While sentence restructuring, conversion of voice, and conjunction and present particle are used on the syntactic level to make source language and translated subtitle more coherent and authentic. On the contextual and textual level, the target text distinguishes the formal and informal languages through the sentence length and the complexity of the structure. This study offers a practical implication for translating Chinese pandemic discourses into English, and it can also shed light on the study of Chinese narratives during the COVID outbreak and the publicity of the Chinese countermeasures.

The Semantic Differences of English and Chinese “地” from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence and Translation Teaching Strategies

The Semantic Differences of English and Chinese “地” from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence and Translation Teaching Strategies

On Interpreting Strategies of Culture-Loaded Words from the Perspective of Linguistic Memetics

Culture-loaded words, with distinct cultural features, lead to lexical gaps for linguistic memes during transmission, which brings daunting challenges to interpreters. Despite various earlier studies of culture-loaded words conducted mainly from the perspective of functional equivalence, relevance theory, interpretive theory or ecological translatology, few are carried out from the perspective of linguistic memetics. For that reason, this paper constructs a Chinese-English interpreting corpus. Based on the corpus analysis method, it first retrieves all qualified culture-loaded words and classifies them into three categories from the perspective of linguistic memetics according to their representation information and content: form-meaning compound culture-loaded words (FMCWs), pronunciation derived culture-loaded words (PDWs) and culture-loaded words derived from morphological structures (MSDWs). Then it explores the interpreting strategies adopted for all culture-loaded words under the guidance of linguistic memetics, and finally summarizes the main interpreting strategies of FMCWs, PDWs, and MSDWs respectively on the basis of applied frequencies. The result shows that our study, compared with predecessors, presents more targeted and practical solutions for interpreters and brings fresh perspective for further studies.

On Translation of Government Work Report from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence

Since implementing reform and opening up, China has obtained remarkable achievements in the areas of economy, politics, military, culture as well as international leverage. In this process, translation plays a vital role for it concerns about reputation and image of China. Translation of the government work report, which involves development status of economy, politics, education, people’s livelihood etc., contributes to help foreign readers to know China’s national situation and strengthen China’s international status. Nida’s functional equivalence theory is a reader-oriented theory that echoed the purpose of government work report translation. On the basis of the functional equivalence theory, this thesis tries to explore the translation of the government work report so as to provide reference for further study of the translation of similar texts.

On Literary Image Transmission from the Perspective of Equivalence----Taking the English Versions of Bian Cheng by Shen Congwen for Example

In recent years, the study of literary image transmission has become one of the hot topics in the field of translation. This article will try to analyze the image transmission in four English versions of Bian Cheng from the perspective of functional equivalence and find out that stylistic equivalence and textual equivalence played an important role in image transmission.

A Study on the C-E Translation of Expressions with Chinese Characteristics in 2017 National Government Work Report from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence

Nowadays China plays an increasingly important role in international arena and draws great attention from all over the world. Government Work Report (GWR) reflects the latest and most authoritative work of the present situation in China, which not only summarizes the past work experience, but also puts forward the future work plan. The C-E translation of 2017 GWR is a good reference for people who are interested in C-E translation of political texts and provides a glimpse of China’s national conditions for foreign countries. Considering the linguistic and cultural differences between Chinese and English, the author studies the expressions with Chinese characteristics in the 2017 Government Work Report (2017GWR) from perspective of functional equivalence.

从功能对等论视角看《浮生六记》林语堂英译本中文化负载词的省译处理

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Strategies of Business English Translation from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence

The paper begins with the introduction of Nida’s functional equivalence theory, which is introduced to be reasonable guidance for business translation. Under the theory, plenty of examples and cases are quoted and analyzed, achieving functional equivalence in meaning, style and culture at the word level, the sentence level and the discourse level. This result indicates that Nida’s theory of functional equivalence can be best applied in business English translation and functional equivalence can be achieved.

Analysis of The Trumpet of the Swan from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence

In the field of translation, different translation theories are adopted for different purposes and target readers. For the translation of children's literature, Eugene Nida's Functional Equivalence is one of the most influential and effective translation theories. In this paper, the author tries to study the Chinese version of The Trumpet of the Swan , the most beloved fairy tale in 20th century, from the perspective of Functional Equivalence, in order to prove that, this theory is so flexible that it can be used in the translation of children's literature, which will definitely enhance the development of the translation of children's literature in China.