[文学研究]用功能翻译理论对比分析《老人与海》的中译本.doc

本 科 生 毕 业 论 文 正 文 （ 2012 届） 论文题目 A Contrastive Study of the Chinese Versions of the Old Man and the Sea from the Perspective of Functionalism 学生姓名 学 号 专 业 英语 班 级 指导教师 职 称 ’d like to express my sincerest gratitude to my instructor Miss Chang Ming, whose thoughtful instructions, insightful comments, as well as her kind encouragement and the painstaking efforts in revising the drafts have contributed greatly to the completion of this thesis. Her help makes the starting of the writing easier and the finishing of it in a better way. Thank her for all she has contributed to the thesis! Also, I am indebted to my friends and family who always offer their precious suggestions anytime I got stuck in the process of the writing and share with me the treasured materials they have. Their accompany keeps me confident throughout the writing and revising of this thesis. Thank them all for their support! A Contrastive Study of the Chinese Versions of the Old Man and the Sea from the Perspective of Functionalism Abstract Functionalism is a school of translation theories which emerged and then developed rapidly in Germany ever since the 1970s. The core factor of functionalism is Skopostheorie which raised the statuses of the translator and the target text. In Skopostheorie, the translator chooses the translation process and the translation method according to the Skopos (Skopos is a Greek word for “purpose”). There are a great number of researches and papers studying functionalism while the majority of which only focus on its application to the translations of instructions, advertisements, news texts and suchlike. The studies conducted on its application to the area of literary translation are relatively fewer. What’s more, many scholars even doubt the applicability of functionalism to literary translation. This paper attempts to use three of the basic concepts of Skopostheorie ------ intratextual and intertextual coherence, adequacy and equivalence, the concept of cult