On the Translation of Animal Words–From Cross-Cultural Perspective开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义

Nowadays, with the development of modern technology, transportation and economy, people from different countries communicate with each other more frequently, which promote the process of globalization in a sense. Throughout the long history of the development of human beings, people keep in touch with animals frequently, which results in interdependent relationship between humans and animals. There are a lot of animal words in English and Chinese languages. To some extent, animal words reflect cultural connotations. However, the number of animal words overlaps completely in symbol and cultural connotation in English and Chinese is small. Many animal words only overlap partially. There are also some animal words that have quite different or even opposite cultural meanings in English and Chinese. Therefore, knowing about the animal words can help us to know more about foreign culture and communicate smoothly and correctly in across-culture. Moreover, throughout the comparison between the Chinese and English cultural differences, we know the advantages and disadvantages of our culture. In that case, we can better improve our culture.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

Because of the huge differences in cultural backgrounds, thinking methods, aesthetic value orientation, social psychology, etc. between the two nations, some animal words may have different or completely opposite meanings. Many kinds of cultural obstacles exist in the translation from cross-cultural perspective. It will bring inconvenience to our translation and cross-cultural communication. Therefore, it#8217;s a key problem to successful translation that we should keep the original animal images and their cultural connotations.

3. 国内外研究现状

the research of cross-cultural communication originated from 1940s to 1950s in america. with the changes in the world political and economic situation and the increasingly frequent cross-cultural communication, cross-cultural communication studies more and more drew people''''''''s attention, especially a lot of social science researchers. leeds-hurwirtz (1998) considers the publication of a book named intercultural communication theory: current perspectives (1983) marks the establishment of intercultural communication as an independent branch of learning. since then, cross-cultural communication has become a popular science, which has been put into the depth of the research phase. a lot of cross-cultural communication research academic institutions have been set up in many countries and regions, such as sietar-usa (the intercultural communication institute, international academy for intercultural communication research, national communication association), sietar-japan, cafic.

researches of cross-cultural communication in the 1980s are mostly tests and extension of current communication theory, mainly exploring the abstract level of cultural and communication theory. gudykunst#8217;s uncertainty reduction (1988) and kim#8217;s intercultural adaptation (1997, 1998) are the main achievements.

to the 1990s, specific, objective and descriptive research gradually gets attention. especially in recent years, study on chinese culture has sharply increased, such as chang amp;holt (1991, 1996), gao amp;gudykunst (1995).

4. 计划与进度安排

abstract

1. introduction

1.1 language and culture

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