The 65th PhD Academic Salon of Translation Studies, 27 Oct.

Last updated:2015-10-22

Topic: Transference at the Thematic and Mimetic Dimensions in Tense and Aspect: A Case Study of Lu Xun’s Stories Translated in English
Speaker: Professor Fang Kairui, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Chair: Wang Xiulu

Time: 16:30-18:00, Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Venue: Room 210, School of Foreign Languages Building, South Campus
Organizer:
Translation Studies Institute, Sun Yat-sen University
School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University

Abstract: Each of the three categories of narrative (tense, aspect, and mood) comprises the thematic dimension and the mimetic dimension. The two dimensions interact with and build on each other so that an intended effect will be produced. A fiction translator needs to make good sense of the interaction and intention in order to transfer the textual properties as much as possible. On the basis of in-depth analyses of narrative and rhetoric in Lu Xun’s stories and their English versions, I will discuss ways of transferring and constructing the textual properties at the two dimensions in the tense and aspect categories.