时间：2015年4月30日晚18:30
地点：东五201（东）
功能对等与跨文化传递视角下有关鲁迅小说两个英译本的对比研究
A Comparative Study of Two English Translations of Selective Stories of Lu Hsün from the Perspectives of Functional Equivalence and Cross-Cultural Transmission
Yang Jingya
Abstract：In 2012, the famous Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, filling in the blank that no Chinese writer has won the prize for over 100 years. Literary translation, as the bridge connecting modern and contemporary Chinese literature to the Nobel Prize, plays an indispensable role for Chinese literature to go outside. As the founder of modern Chinese culture and the pioneer of Chinese literary translation, Lu Hsün initiates to take farmers and intellectuals as the main subjects of modern literature and takes “for human life” as his writing purpose. His works reflect his criticism to the old traditions and feudal ethics of his time. Although he writes only a few novels, these novels have established a new form of Chinese novel with modernity, freedom and criticalness, which are representative in the history of modern Chinese literature. It is a must to read his work for foreign readers who want to know Chinese literature and Chinese culture. His novels are plain and implicit with deep and sincere lyrical atmosphere, which proposes a challenge for translators to translate his work well. As the core of Eugene A. Nida’s translation theory, Functional Equivalence includes three aspects, namely meaning, style and reader’s response. Compared with previous translation theories, Functional Equivalence brings translation into the field of linguistics and it introduces culture and reader’s response into translation studies. In 2009, professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, Chinese literary scholar and translator Julia Lovell’s translation work The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun was published by the British publishing giant and the world’s most famous English book publisher Penguin Publishing House. It is when all 33 novels of Lu Hsün were first completely translated into English and introduced to the Western readers. In 1981, on the other hand, Foreign Languages Press published the translation works of Lu Hsün by Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang whose works are the typical translation of literary works of Lu Hsün. Thus this thesis is about a comparative study of two English translations of Medicine from the perspectives of cross-cultural transmission and functional equivalence, which are by Julia Lovell and by Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang respectively. The comparative study aims to help readers appreciate the translations of the three famous translators for the translation skills they used and the guiding role of Nida’s functional equivalence in cross-cultural transmission.
Key Words: Functional Equivalence; cross-cultural transmission; a comparative study of translations; Julia Lovell; Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang
文明•荒野•文化之求索—中西荒野观的比较
傅佳雯
摘要：从古至今，中西的荒野（Wilderness）概念不断变化，人们对荒野的认知也不断发展。中西方的荒野观皆经历了从“害怕和恐惧”到“开发和征服”，最后又回到“保护和回归”的超循环。本文通过比较中西方荒野在思想范畴以及实践范畴的认知和发展异同，分别从文学视角、哲学视角、生态保护视角以及休闲和游憩视角梳理了中西方荒野的定义及其发展历程，得出以下结论：西方的荒野意象具有二元性，荒野认知经历了从“人类中心主义”到“非人类中心主义”再到“重新定居”的转变，通过制定相关法律法规、建立国家公园以及倡导生态旅游，使荒野在收到保护的同时，得到休闲最大价值的发挥。中国荒野意象却暗含“荒凉”之意，虽自古有“天人合一”的思想底蕴，但荒野保护却起步较晚，程度较低，对荒野的认知并未摆脱“荒芜之地”的偏见。因此通过中西荒野观的比较研究，以期中国能真正认识荒野的价值所在，因地制宜地开发和保护荒野。
关键词：荒野；文学；哲学；环境保护；休闲和游憩
Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions in Ragtime and Red Sorghum
Yu Fan
Abstract: This paper attempts to explore the deconstruction of binary oppositions such as fact/fiction, history/literature and present/past in E.L.Doctorow’s Ragtime and MoYan’s Red Sorghum. A brief introduction of binary oppositions is presented in the first part. In the second part, there is detailed analysis of specific texts concerning the three pairs, which demonstrates the development of binary oppositions in post-modern context. The third part focuses on why the writer manipulates the three pairs and a deep discussion of the relationships between them. The fourth part is the conclusion of the paper. There is no absolute truth, no unchallengable history or fixed sense of time in literary works. The deconstruction of binary oppositions will, direct or indirect, alter readers’ understanding model towards post-modern literature.
Key words: Binary oppositions, deconstruction, history, literature
A Comprehensive Study on the General Features of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor
Xu Yining
Abstract: According to Halliday (1991), human being’s experience is construed, exchanged, contested and transmitted by means of language. We acquire and learn language, and utilize the language to learn more . The power of the language lies in its ability in “theorizing” the world in the semantic sphere, and in “nominalizing”the word in the grammatical sphere. Language construes the meaning, and subsequently, meaning construes our knowledge and understanding. Be it commonly-embraced knowledge or highly professional scientific journals, there can be no theorizing without language, or say, without the semogenic power of the grammar (Webster, 2004). In Systemic Functional Linguistics, language is viewed to be a complex semiotic system composed by numerical strata, (Halliday and Metthiessen, 1999; 2004, Yang, 2008). Semantic stratum deals with the conversion of human experience and interpersonal relation into meanings. Grammatical stratum on the other hand, makes this conversion proceed into the stage of wordings. Traditionally, the grammatical units tallies congruently with the semantic patterns, however, as a means of reshaping human being’s experience, metaphors serve as a way in connecting semantics and grammar in an otherwise fixed way. Grammatical metaphor made it possible for the cross-coupling between the grammatical stratum and the semantic stratum, and thus engenders the realignment or say, the incongruent realization in expression.In Systemic Functional Linguistics, meaning is believed to be realized by form. In this sense, grammatical metaphor, as a realigned and incongruent grammatical expression of one certain semantic choice, plays the part in semantic remeaning instead of solely grammatical rewording. From this light, the notion of grammatical metaphor can facilitate the understanding of the nature of language at the semantic level
Keywords: grammatical metaphor, systemic functional linguistics, semantic, lexicogrammar
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2015年4月30日
