A Review on Translation Studies from the Perspective of Post-modernism Philosophy
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.167How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- translation studies; post-modernism; post-modernism philosophy
- Abstract
Post-modernism is a universal cultural trend in western developed countries in the 1960s, and post-modernism philosophy is the fundamental and important component of post-modernism. In essence, post-modernism philosophy is a different way of thinking from modern philosophy, and it is characterized by the emphasis on the negative, non-central, anti-orthodox, uncertain, and diversified concepts. In the aspect of methodology, post-modern philosophy is characterized by Derrida's deconstructionism; in the aspect of epistemology, it is the rejection of meaning's simplicity fixity of essential-ism philosophy concepts. Post-modernism philosophy is the deconstruction of modern philosophy, which has profound and great significance on contemporary translation studies. In the academic expressions of contemporary translation studies, there are many different viewpoints, for example, negation of the meaning's fixity of the source language text, challenging fidelity as the translation standard, putting foreignization strategy on an important position, and emphasis on translators' subjectivity, etc. Under the influence of post-modernism philosophy, deconstructionism was introduced into translation studies, which challenged the traditional translation logo-centrism; post-colonialism was also introduced into translation studies, which aimed to improve the conditions of translators to resist the hegemony of the developed countries' cultures; and feminism translation theory treated gender as a point-cut, which challenged and rebelled the traditional translation theories.
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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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rongliang Niu PY - 2017/06 DA - 2017/06 TI - A Review on Translation Studies from the Perspective of Post-modernism Philosophy BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 686 EP - 690 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.167 DO - 10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.167 ID - Niu2017/06 ER -