Translation of Social Dialect in Frog from the Perspective of Prominence in Construal Theory

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10.2991/icmesd-17.2017.31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Construal theory, Prominence, Frog, Social dialect, Translation.

Abstract

Frog is one of the well-known works of Mo Yan who won the 8th Mao Dun Literary Prize, which is full of social dialect. A suitable translation of social dialect is conducive to the appreciation of this novel by western readers. This paper aims to analyze the translation of social dialect in Mo Yan's novel Frog from the perspective prominence dimension of Construal theory in order to prove that prominence dimension of Construal theory is feasible for the translation of social dialect. According to prominence, different people have different construal ways for the same object owing to the different prominent habit, but the content is still the same. With the suitable prominence as the guidance, translator can construe well the social dialect and offer the target readers a remarkable translation version through the application of suitable translation methods, such as literal translation, liberal translation, transliteration, and so on.

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© 2017, 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  - Yu-Shan Zhao
AU  - Ya-Nan Xu
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - Translation of Social Dialect in Frog from the Perspective of Prominence in Construal Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 17)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 173
EP  - 177
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmesd-17.2017.31
DO  - 10.2991/icmesd-17.2017.31
ID  - Zhao2017/05
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