中西文化差异对电影片名翻译的影响
毕业论文关键词：文化差异;电影片名;翻译;影响
Abstract Film has played an increasingly important role in our life. Film titles are generalization of the whole film content, therefore film title translation in a foreign propaganda plays an important role. It is influenced by many factors. As a result, film translation has become more and more important, especially title translation. However, there are many problems in film title translation. In the hope of improving the present situation, this paper makes a study on how to translate English and Chinese film titles. The cultural differences influencing on translation of film title cannot be ignored. This paper analyses Chinese and Western culture which affects the translation of film titles from many levels such as the multiple dimensions of Chinese geographical differences, value differences, religious differences and cultural differences. The paper is based on discussion of the features of film titles and the present situation of translation, and aims to put forward several possible strategies of film title translation. Therefore, readers can get a general idea about the situation of film title translation and pay enough attention to movie title translation, and improve the situation.
Key words: culture difference; film titles; translation；influence
Influence of Cultural Differences Between Chinese and Western Countries on Translation of Film Titles
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Research Significance 2
II. Cause of Differences Between Chinese and Western Countries 2
2.1 Different Values 3
2.2 Different religions 4
2.3 Different geographical environment 4
2.4 Different Social and Historical Culture 5
III. Influence of Cultural Difference on Film Title Translation 6
3.1 Influence of Different Values 6
3.2 Influence of Different Religious 7
3.3 Influence of Different Geography Condition 7
3.4 Influence of Different Social and Historical Culture 8
IV. Film Title Translation Strategies 9
4.1 Considering the Corresponding Aesthetic Psychology 9
4.2 Considering the Corresponding Religious Culture 10
4.3 Considering the Corresponding Allusions and Idioms 10
V. Conclusion 11
Bibliography 12
Acknowledgements 13
I. Introduction
1.1 Research Background
With the process of globalization and the increasing exchange between Chinese and western cultures, there are more and more cultural communications as well as cultural shocks. Film, as a special and important medium in cultural exchange, has begun to attract every nation’s attention, and plays an important role both as an access to the foreign culture and as a significant way of spreading the native culture. Taking the American films as an example, they have influenced the worldwide people’s life in a broad way, especially the Hollywood films.
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