On Literary Image Transmission from the Perspective of Equivalence----Taking the English Versions of Bian Cheng by Shen Congwen for Example

Jianjiao TENG

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In recent years, the study of literary image transmission has become one of the hot topics in the field of translation. This article will try to analyze the image transmission in four English versions of Bian Cheng from the perspective of functional equivalence and find out that stylistic equivalence and textual equivalence played an important role in image transmission.

 


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Literary image transmission; Functional equivalence; Bian Cheng

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