Restructuring a New Approach of Pun Translation Strategy 双关语翻译策略的重构.pdf

ISSN 1799-2591 Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 2498-2506, December 2014 © 2014 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.12.2498-2506 Restructuring a New Approach of Pun Translation Strategy Chengzhi Zhang (Corresponding Author) School of Foreign Languages, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, China Goh Sang Seong School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Suzana Hj. Muhammad School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Abstract—The objective of the paper is to examine Delabastita’s approach of pun translation strategies in English-Chinese translation. 121 puns in Shakespeare Sonnets and their nine Chinese translations are taken as the research corpus. Nida’s CAM was taken to analyze the puns’ meanings. The research identified a new strategy some major defects in his approach. And a new approach of pun translation strategy is proposed. Index Terms—Shakespeare’s Sonnets, pun, translation strategy Many scholars attest that puns are difficult to translate. Newmark (2001, p. 12) indicates “Puns made by punning poets are most difficult to translate, since they are limited by meter. Often the puns simply have to be sacrificed”. Reiss (2000, p. 169) admits, “In translation puns and other kinds of play with language will have to be ignored to a great extent so as to keep the content invariant.” Han Dihou ( 1969, p. 37) even claims that “The problem of pun cannot be resolved by any translation theory.” Nevertheless, Delabastita (1993) proposes an approac