A Study on Functional Translation of Proper Nouns in Traditional Chinese Opera

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10.2991/icassee-18.2018.146How to use a DOI?

Keywords

translation of Chinese opera; proper nouns in Chinese opera; cross-culture communication

Abstract

Chinese Opera has a glorious history. Because of language barriers, discrepancy of drama culture and dramatic performance systems, it is still quite difficult to appreciate Chinese opera in actual cross-cultural overseas context. This paper collects and translates a part of proper nouns of Chinese operatic stage. From three translating methods of proper nouns in Chinese opera based on the SF theory — literal translation, liberal translation and transliteration with notes to transliteration, this paper concludes that we should choose an adaptive translating method of proper nouns in accordance with different functions.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guangtao Cao
AU  - Linrong Qiu
AU  - Jiexin Wu
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - A Study on Functional Translation of Proper Nouns in Traditional Chinese Opera
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 726
EP  - 729
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassee-18.2018.146
DO  - 10.2991/icassee-18.2018.146
ID  - Cao2018/12
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