Equivalent Tenor in Translation: A Case Study on Ophelia’s Confession

• 作者: XUAN Junbin
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: equivalent translation Tenor analysis HAMLET translation assessment
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（7）
• 页码范围: 211-216
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

Tenor determines the Interpersonal Function of language within a context.A matching Tenor is indispensable when a translator attempts to reproduce a context in the target language;especially the translator is translating a dialogue.Translating Shakespeare’s dramas is necessarily doing with the dialogue translation,for which the content and interpersonal exchange is vital for transmitting the effect of those foreign readers.Through a comparative analysis on the source text and translated text of Ophelia’s confession in the drama Hamlet,it goes to show an equivalent Tenor can form a stage for the target readers to know how Ophelia’s minds settle and what the position she is at compared with Hamlet.It also proves that Register can be a reference to assessing whether a translation is equivalent to its original text as far as literature translation is concerned.