英文论文摘要

On Cultural Gaps and Untranslatability in Chinese Version of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe from Perspective of Functionalism

Abstract

This thesis is an attempt to apply functionalism to literary translation and prove its feasibility by analyzing the untranslatability of the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe causing by cultural gaps. Functionalism is a broad term for various theories that approach translation by focusing on the function or functions of texts and translations. And the four important representatives of functionalism are Katharina Reiss, Hans J. V ermeer, Justa Holz-Mnttri and Christiane Nord. This thesis attempts to apply the core rules of Skopostheorie –to analyze the untranslatability of the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe which is caused by cultural gaps, in the hope of gaining a better understanding of literary translation from the perspective of functionalism.

This paper is composed of four chapters. The first one is introduction. Chapter 2 introduces the German Functionalism and translation theories including a brief introduction to the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and the author Defoe. Chapter 3 goes over the application of the main translation theory Skopostheorie in analyzing the untranslatability of the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe causing by cultural gaps with analyzing the culture factor in translation. Besides, this chapter also analyses the limitations of Skopostheorie. In chapter 4, the final conclusion is that functionalism is also applicable to literary translation and can provide a different perspective in solving the untranslatability causing by cultural gaps.

Key Words: functionalism; skopostheorie; untranslatability; culture gaps; The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

从功能派视角分析《鲁滨逊漂流记》中文译本中的文化差异

与不可译性

摘要

本文试图把德国功能派翻译理论运用到文学翻译研究中，并通过分析《鲁滨逊漂流记》来论述因文化差异而导致的不可译性。功能主义是一个广义的术语，它包含各种通过着眼于文本和译本的功能来研究翻译的理论。功能派翻译理论的代表人物包括卡塔琳娜.赖斯，汉斯.弗米尔，贾斯特.赫尔兹-曼塔里以及克里斯蒂安.诺德。本文尝试运用目的论的基本法则—目的法则和忠实性法则，分析《鲁滨逊漂流记》中因文化差异而导致的不可译性，以此期望从功能翻译理论的视角更好地认识文学翻译。

本文由四章组成，第一章为综述。第二章介绍了德国功能主义及其翻译理论，其中包括对《鲁滨逊漂流记》及其作者的简介。第三章主要是应用德国功能主义翻译理论-目的论分析小说中由于文化差异而导致的不可译性，除此之外，还介绍了目的论的局限性。第四章中，主要指出功能主义也可应用于文学翻译并且为解决由文化差异导致的不可翻译性提供了不同的视角。

关键词: 功能主义;目的论;不可译性;文化差异;鲁滨逊漂流记