Chapter 6 Discussion on the Use of Traditional Chi...
Translation is regarded as “an act of intercultural communication rather than simply inter-linguistic” (Cintas in Orero,ed.,2004: 31).When considering the translation of foreign films,we may have to raise awareness of cultural information in order to make the audience comprehend the movie appropriately.With this in mind,the use of key analysed memes may help the film translators improve the quality of their work.As a consequence,I estimate there are effective expressions in making the subtitles compatible in Chinese culture,for example,Chinese traditional expressions as idioms,archaisms,proverbs and ancient poems.Can culturally loaded words or expressions make the E-C subtitle translation become effective and acceptable to the audience? I assume the answer to this question is positive,which leads to the second hypothesis of this research.In this chapter,I will extract all the traditional Chinese expressions from the corpus and discuss the following three points: 1) the frequency by which these expressions appeared in the data; 2) the rationale of the translator’s translation strategies in translating the English expressions into Chinese; and 3) the effectiveness of translating the English expressions into traditional Chinese expressions in subtitle translation of animation films.The focus on the study of language peculiarities and features in E-C subtitle translations is another key factor in the theoretical polysystem of my study.(https://www.daowen.com)