Research on the Improvement of the Translation Technique of Phonological Rhetoric in the Poetry Translation between English and Chinese through the Analysis of Yuanchong Xu’s and Yiduo Wen’s Theories on the Phonological Rhetoric Translation

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Research on the Improvement of the Translation Technique of Phonological Rhetoric in the Poetry Translation between English and Chinese through the Analysis of Yuanchong Xu’s and Yiduo Wen’s Theories on the Phonological Rhetoric Translation

Yiren Zhang 1*
  • 1 Department of Languages and Cultures, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai, 519000, China    
  • *corresponding author q030025129@mail.uic.edu.cn
CHR Vol.3
ISSN (Print): 2753-7072
ISSN (Online): 2753-7064
ISBN (Print): 978-1-915371-29-4
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Abstract

Phonological rhetoric technique is an indispensable part of Chinese and English poetry. Due to the existence of phonological rhetoric, a poetry is endowed with both distinctive musicality beauty and unique linguistic beauty. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the translation techniques of phonological rhetoric in the poetry translation from Chinese to English, both for cultural translation output and for absorption of foreign cultures. Presently, there are some problems in the poetry translation of phonological rhetoric translation between Chinese and English, such as the similarity of content, the singleness of translation means and certain limitations. All of these problems have already become an obstacle to the exchanges between Chinese and English. As famous translators, Xu Yuanchong and Wen Yiduo have rich experience in solving the problem of translating the phonological rhetorics in the poems both English and Chinese. This article further explores and improves the methods of poetry translation of phonological rhetoric between Chinese and English by analyzing and comparing the "phonological beauty" in Yuanchong Xu's "Three Beauties" theory and Yiduo Wen's theory on phonological rhetoric translation.

Keywords:

phonological rhetoric, translation techniques, three beauties theory, Yuanchong Xu, Yiduo Wen

Zhang,Y. (2023). Research on the Improvement of the Translation Technique of Phonological Rhetoric in the Poetry Translation between English and Chinese through the Analysis of Yuanchong Xu’s and Yiduo Wen’s Theories on the Phonological Rhetoric Translation. Communications in Humanities Research,3,290-295.
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Zhang,Y. (2023). Research on the Improvement of the Translation Technique of Phonological Rhetoric in the Poetry Translation between English and Chinese through the Analysis of Yuanchong Xu’s and Yiduo Wen’s Theories on the Phonological Rhetoric Translation. Communications in Humanities Research,3,290-295.

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Volume title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies (ICIHCS 2022), Part 1

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Editor：Faraz Ali Bughio, David T. Mitchell
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Conference date: 18 December 2022
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Volume number: Vol.3
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References

[1]. Jia Zhong. (2015) A comparative study of rhythm and rhyme in English and Chinese poetry. English Square (Academic Research)(01),146-147.

[2]. Yuangchong Xu.(1991). Six Views on Translated Poetry. Chinese Translation (05),2-10.

[3]. Yuanchong Xu. (2006). The Art of Translation. Beijing: Five Continents Spread out. Publisher: 73,151.

[4]. Yuanchong Xu. On the Translation of Chinese Poetry into English. Beijing: Peking University Press,2007.

[5]. Jianjun Zhou and Shunsheng Zhang. (2019) Appreciation of Xu Yuanchong's Chinese-English poems -- Taking Xiaoya · Caiwei and The Yellow Crane Tower to Meng Haoran's Guangling as examples. Teacher of English (19),58-61.

[6]. Xuan Liu. Commentary of Wen Yiduo. Peking University Press,1987

[7]. Zhiguo Nan. (2002). Wen Yiduo's Translation of Poetry and translation Theory. Chinese Translation (02).

[8]. Xiaojuan Zou. (2011). On the Translation of Wen Yiduo's Poems -- A Case study of the translation of Sonnets by Madame Butler. Changjiang Academic Journal (01),171-174.

[9]. Song Xiaoying.(2013). A Brief analysis of the Phonological beauty of Chinese and English Poems. Young Writer (23),172-173.

[10]. Mianjun Xu. (2017). A Review of multimodal translation studies in China. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (02),40-46.

[11]. Xiaoli Zhai. (2014). A study on Subtitle Translation in A Bite of China and its Implications for Translation teaching [J]. Overseas English, (07),148-149. K., H., & M., M. (2006). Construing experience through meaning: A language-based approach to cognition. Continuum.

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