On Text as the Unit of Literary Translation.pdf

1、Text linguistics is a young discipline developed from 1960s, which focuses on the texture of a text. Its findings and theories shed a new light on translation study and guide translators to shift their eyes from the leve

2、l of words, phrases and sentences to that of the text, so that they can pay more attention to the communicative function of the source text. As translation is a top-down process, by comparing the differences in English a

3、nd Chinese in view of ways of thinking, information distribution and textual organization, this thesis proposes text as translation unit regarding semantic and structural aspects. Halliday's systemic functional grammar t

4、heory, mainly the relevant study of cohesion, coherence, and thematic and information structures are adopted. In addition, Eugene A. Nida's theory of dynamic equivalence is also discussed as a feasible translation standa

5、rd. According to the above-mentioned theories, a case study of paragraph realignment phenomenon in Vanity Fair's Chinese version, translated by Ms. Yang Bi is conducted in order to explore how the translator successfully

6、 accomplished text reconstruction from English to Chinese. Implications shall be that 1)literary translation process is a process of text reconstruction from target language to source language; 2) As an integration of se