An Analysis of the Level Shifts in Dialect Translation—In Three Versions of The Sing-Song Girls in Shanghai

• 作者: GUO Xia
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: DIALECT TRANSLATION level shifts interlingual TRANSLATION intralingual TRANSLATION The Sing-Song GIRLS of SHANGHAI
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（8）
• 页码范围: 402-405
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H313

摘要

The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai is a typical Chinese dialectal literary work.It has been translated into Mandarin(contemporary standard Chinese)and English versions by Eileen Chang,a famous Chinese writer.Dialect translation is a process involving both intralingual and interlingual translation,in which the strategy of Catford’s Translation Shifts is analyzed with examples in three versions of the novel.His theory is grounded on the sacrifice of“formal correspondence”,which,as a kind of translation strategy,attaches more importance to“semantic equivalence”.This article mainly discusses the application of Gatford’s translation level shifts in translating in dialectal literary works.