关联理论指导下《一代宗师》字幕翻译中的文化再现研究
My thanks first go to the supervisor of this paper, Associate Professor. Yuan. During the eight-month journey of putting together the whole thesis, I have been benefiting from her inspiring guidance for my subject selection as well as her patient revisions to this thesis. The completion would not be made if without her constructive and insightful suggestions.
Meanwhile, I would like to express my gratitude towards the setting of various courses that give me practical language training and enrich my comprehension of language application, among which are Translation, Advanced English, Literature and others, to name just a few.
Abstract With western culture orientation prevailing, China is seeking for cultural-led acceptance. Since film is appearing as the most beloved massive entertainment, it can be taken as a perfect platform for culture diffusion.
As the most popular eastern movie theme, Chinese Kung Fu tops on the list of culture diffusion. In this process, differences between Chinese culture and English culture make the direct translation impossible, which require translators to reproduce a culture that is understandable to receptors and meanwhile, conveys the meaning of the original text.
Culture differences also lead to difficult determinations of translation. These hard decisions, along with constraints of subtitling, are the largest barrier for translators in culture reproduction. To provide other-language-speaking audience with the unique Chinese culture, a proper translation of the film subtitle is urgently needed. During the process of culture reproduction, however, parameters hinder the audience from accepting Chinese culture. In order to achieve an optimal effect for culture reproduction, analysis of these parameters shall be made. With the perspective of relevance theory, this thesis takes the subtitle translation of film the Grandmaster as corpus, exploring how Chinese culture is reproduced by several strategies.
Key Words: relevance theory, subtitle translation, culture reproduction
摘要 在全球西方文化强势的今天，中国也在寻求文化认同。当电影逐渐成为最为大众所热爱的娱乐项目，它也顺理成章地成为文化传播的绝佳平台。
作为东方文化中备受推崇的元素，中国功夫当之无愧地成为文化传播中的主流主题。然而，中西的文化差异导致译者无法直译文化元素。取而代之，译者需要以目标语言再现源语文化，保留源语言文化的同时，也易于文化背景不同的观众理解。
为将独特的中国文化展示给母语非中文的观众，中国电影急需恰当的字幕翻译。然而在字幕文化翻译的过程中，有诸多因素影响观众接收源文化信息，如上述提及的文化差异和字幕翻译中的种种制约，故而文化无法再现。以呈现原汁原的中国文化为目的，字幕翻译需要将此类因素归纳总结，并得出适用的翻译技巧。本文以关联理论为视角，电影一代宗师为研究语料，探索它的字幕翻译是如何再现中国文化、其中包含哪些翻译技巧。
毕业论文关键词：关联理论，字幕翻译，文化再现
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements i
Abstract ii
摘要 iii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Methodology 2
1.3 Thesis Structure 3
2 Literature Review 4
2.1 Subtitle Translation 4
2.2 A Relevance-Theoretic Approach Applied to Subtitle Translation 5
3 Culture Reproduction in Subtitle Translation 6
3.1 Cultural Elements 6