从社会符号学角度看英语电影名称的翻译
毕业论文关键词：电影名称；社会符号学；翻译
Abstract The movie is one of the eight art forms and plays an important role in the cross-cultural communication. In terms of sociosemiotics, the movie is considered as the social signs, so the translation of the film name is the meaning transformation of the language signs, in which the film contents should be emphasized, the information of the theme expressed, the emotional key fixed, and more audiences attracted and so on. Based on these points, this paper will analyze the film name translation from the perspective of three meanings of sociosemiotics: the designative meaning, the linguistic meaning, the pragmatics meaning. The film name translation is not the mere transformation of the word, meanwhile, the pragmatics meaning as well as the social function of the film name should be taken into a full consideration, in order to produce the film name translation with the proper style, meaning and function.
Key words:film name; sociosemiotics; translation
On the Translation of Film Name from the Perspective of Sociosemiotics
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
Ⅰ. Introduction 1
Ⅱ. Sociosemiotics 2
2.1 The Development of Sociosemiotics 2
2.2 Three Meanings from the Perspective of Sociosemiotics 3
2.3 Translating Rules Based on Sociosemiotics 5
Ⅲ. The Application of Sociosemiotics to the Film Name Translation 7
3.1 The Application of the Designative Meaning 7
3.2 The Application of the Linguistic Meaning 8
3.3 The Application of the Pragmatics Meaning 9
Ⅴ. Conclusion 11
Bibliography 12
Acknowledgements 13
Ⅰ.Introduction
Nowadays, films are gradually booming as the media means to enrich people’s recreation life, which act like the bridge of the world culture to expose exotic life and culture to the people all over the world. Lots of classical movies are prevalent and are screened in different countries. So the film name plays an irreplaceable role to exactly and vividly reveal the contents and theme of the film as well as the inferring type of the movie. Thus, it’s a comparatively urgent task for the translator to take both the Chinese cultural customers and source language culture into consideration to make the title brief and clear in the hope of attracting the audience. However, on the whole, the quality of the translations sometimes are not much satisfied so that there are some deviation of expressing the original meaning that the author wants to express. There is a plenty of translation theories in the academic filed to be applied to the translation work. However some problems can’t be solved. Some of the names are ambiguous and obscured for the audience’s understanding. Because the language signs are sensible only on the condition of that it is connected with the culture.
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