对比分析《西厢记》的两个英译本：论翻译微观转换与文本宏观结构

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION (1)

1.1 Background and Significance of the Study (1)

1.2 Research Questions (6)

1.3 Research Methods (6)

1.4 Layout of the Thesis (7)

CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW OF THIS THESIS (8)

2.1 Studies on the Translation of Xixiangji (9)

2.2 Studies on Translation Shift (13)

CHAPTER III THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK (16)

3.1 Shifts on the Microstructural Level (16)

3.1.1 Semantic Shifts (17)

3.1.2 Stylistic Shifts (17)

3.1.3 Syntactic Shifts (18)

3.2 Shifts on the Macrostructural Level (19)

3.2.1 Shifts on the Interpersonal Function (19)

3.2.2 Shifts on the Ideational Function (20)

3.2.3 Shifts on the Textual Function (21)

CHAPTER IV COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO ENGLISH VERSIONS OF XIXIANGJI (23)

4.1 Features of Xixiangji (23)

4.1.1 Xixiangji as a Performing Art (24)

4.1.2 Xixiangji as a Literary Art (26)

4.2 The Effect of Microstructural Shifts on the Macrostructure (28)

4.2.1 Phonological Shifts VS Macrostructure (29)

4.2.2 Syntactic Shifts VS Macrostructure (36)

4.2.3 Semantic Shifts VS Macrostructure (43)

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4.3 The Effect of Translator?s Manipulation of Macrostructure on the

Microstructural Shifts (48)

4.3.1 Translator?s Manipulation of Macrostructure VS Culture-bound Terms

(49)

4.3.2 Translator?s Manipulation of Macrostructure VS Allusions (52)

4.3.3Translator?s Manipulation of Macrostructure VS Culture-bound

Concepts (56)

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION (58)

5.1 Findings and Contributions (58)

5.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study (59)

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

Xixiangji, authored by Wang Shifu in Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368),has long enjoyed great reputation and appreciation in the past few centuries as the unparalleled Chinese classical drama. A love story about how Yingying and Zhang Junrui, the two main characters, met, how they fell in love with each other, what obstacles they encountered and how they finally overcome them and successfully tied the knot in the end was told in this drama within the twenty scenes, five acts. It almost equals Hongloumeng, the best of the four famous works of ancient China in its reputation for it is infested with flowery language and rich fine culture of ancient China just as well as Hongloumeng (Jiang Xingyu, 1982). In fact, of all the China?s ancient drama works, Wang Shifu?s Xixiangji is the most frequently printed, most widely spread and most influential one (Shen Daren & Yan Changke, 1986). And it started to win the world?s attention since it was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese and so on and so forth (Han Sheng & He Xinhui & Fan Biao, 1992). Of all the English versions, two of them were respectively translated by S.I. Hsiung and Xu Yuanchong, both of whom overcame unimaginable difficulties to accomplish the work completely from the first scene of the first act to the last scene of the last act.

1.1 Background and Significance of the Study

According to I.A. Richards, translation is “probably the most complex type of event yet produced in the evolution of the cosmos” (Richards, 1953, cited in Muriel, 2008, p.45). Of all the types, translation of the literary works is possibly the most complicated activity for the reason that it is not only the transformation of one language into another, but also the transformation between the two different cultures during the translation process of the literary works. Susan Bassnett also has mentioned in her book titled Translation Theory(Bassnett, 2010), it is impossible to find two words that have the exact same meaning in one language, not to mention in two distinct languages which are quite different from each other due to their respective

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