Chapter 7 Discussion on the Translation of Popular...
In the literature review,I introduced the concept of “popular expressions” into this research,which is a new phenomenon in modern Chinese culture.With the fast development of globalization and information technology,more and more new words are appearing in the context of Chinese people’s daily life.These new words include popular phrases common in social networks,loan words,dialects and coinages.Therefore,in this study,I categorize these words as “popular expressions”,and will test and evaluate the frequency of their use in the given data,as well as analyse the effectiveness of this use in translated animation films.Thus,in this chapter,as forms of culturally loaded words,popular expressions are considered as a new category of expressions in the development of modern Chinese language and culture; they will be identified and discussed in the following aspects: 1) the frequency of using popular expressions in the translation of these 15 English animation films; 2) the strategies and ways of translating the popular expressions in the given data; 3) the main issues in the translation of popular expressions and my suggestions concerning their use.In the last chapter,I defined one feature and language peculiarity of the translated Chinese subtitles as the use of Chinese idioms and archaisms (as a category of expressions in traditional Chinese culture).Along with another category of expressions,known as popular expressions (which embodies modern Chinese culture),I am minded that these two types of language features in translated Chinese subtitles in the given data evoke other factors in the polysystem of subtitling: the features of subtitle translations in E-C animation films and,from the perspective of the receptor of these films,their language preference,and their level of education in Chinese and in English.(https://www.daowen.com)