英語(yǔ)論文的開(kāi)題報(bào)告

1、英語(yǔ)論文的開(kāi)題報(bào)告 開(kāi)題報(bào)告是指開(kāi)題者對(duì)科研課題的一種文字說(shuō)明材料。關(guān)于英語(yǔ)論文的開(kāi)題報(bào)告應(yīng)該怎么寫(xiě)? function and application of descriptive translation studies the intention of this study is to explore possible advantages of descriptive translation studies as in its application in translation practice and translation analysis. since early 20th ce

2、ntury, translation studies gradually broke away from the marginal status within other related disciplines and established itself as an empirical science. from then on, schools of thought have kept ing out and each claims its legitimacy for existence. among these schools is descriptive translation st

3、udies (dts). dts approaches translation from an empirical perspective. translation is viewed to be a social activity having significant importance in the receiving culture and for the target munity. therefore, translation is dealt with beyond the linguistic realization and language parison, and is i

4、ncorporated in social and cultural context. my attention was first directed to dts by its peculiar characteristic of observation, description and explanation. the subject is whatever happens in translation practice, from the determination of prospective function of translation to the process of tran

5、slators choice of strategies, brainstorming and the revision, to the final product making appearance in the target munity. the method of dts is basically descriptive. the prescriptive tendency and the problem-solution pattern is abandoned. translation phenomena are noted down. with aumulated data, s

6、ome underlying truths about translation will e out which will prove to be instructive not only for theoretical probe but also for applied translation practice. i will apply this descriptive method in the case study of this thesis. a convenient tool has been set up to conduct dts. “norm” is operative

7、 at every stage of description and explanation. function, process and product and their relationship as well are skeletal structure of what constitute descriptive studies. translation phenomena are aounted for with the help of norm. the case taken in this thesis is the chinese classic the dream of r

8、ed mansions. two english versions translated respectively by yang hsien-yi and david hawks are pared and observations are made in regard to their translation approaches. in this regard, my observations are limited to several aspects, i hope in-depth observation and explanation will done in light of

9、dts. 2.1 development and major concepts of dts in this part i will describe holms basic map of dts and the relationship between function, process and product. i will also discuss some important concepts such as pseudo-translation, multiple translation, translationese, norm etc. 2.2 methodolgy i will

10、 in this part discuss the methodology of dts before i apply the same to the case study in this thesis with emphasis to be placed on semiotic approach and the concept norm. 2.3 dts in contrast to other theories a contrast study will be conducted here with the objective to find the difference of dts f

11、rom other theories such as equivalence theory and the chinese xin da ya criteria. some advantage will possibly be shown in this study. 2.4 case study in this part, translation of the dream of red mansions (also translated as the story of the stone) will be under investigation in light of dts. translation samples to be quoted here will be selected at random. 2.5 conclusion based on the above elaboration of dts an