Towards a Sense-Making Approach to Translation: A Case Study

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10.2991/978-94-6463-600-0_38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Yuyan Zhuanhuan (language conversion); Sense-making; Translation units; Functional senses; Aesthetic senses

Abstract

Yuyan Zhuanhuan (literally ‘language conversion’), a preliminary instinct of a translation learner and beginner translator in face of an assignment, and an intuitively empirical approach to translation upheld by some Chinese scholars, should be dismissed, as the so-called ‘equivalence’ has been disregarded in the West. Sense making could be taken as an indispensable principle/requirement instead, for successful translation as smooth interlingual/intralingual communication facilitation is simply meant to “make sense” purposefully. Based on the six factors and six functions of human language proposed by Jacobson, and a starter case, this paper put forward a contrastive sense-making approach to translation: a comprehensive framework as well as a hypothesis. We analyzed one more cases and surveyed the popularity of different translated versions. The case basically verified our hypothesis. Thus, our contrastive sense-making approach to translation might be theoretically viable and practically workable.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Youbin Chen
AU  - Yi Zuo
AU  - Hong Yun
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/13
TI  - Towards a Sense-Making Approach to Translation: A Case Study
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education (NMDME 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 329
EP  - 337
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-600-0_38
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-600-0_38
ID  - Chen2024
ER  -