Translation of Personal Address in Peach Blossom Paradise

Lijun LI, Yongju BAI

Abstract


As a literary masterpiece, Peach Blossom Paradise has a variety of characters, whose personal address fully reflects the complex interpersonal relationship and diverse characters’ characteristics. This paper uses quantitative research methods to classify personal address in Peach Blossom Paradise into three categories: name address, personal address and kinship address, and sorts out the translation methods of each type of those personal address. The paper uses Nida Eugene’s functional equivalence theory to explore the rationale for the use of each translation method, so we can get the inspiration from it. Through data analysis, it is found that in the translation of personal address the translator employed a variety of translation methods, among which literal translation, free translation, transliteration and variation translation are the most commonly used, and recreation and omission are the supplements, thus achieving maximum equivalence to make the target reader understand the source text as well as the original reader of the text.


Keywords


Personal address; Functional equivalence; Translation method; Peach Blossom Paradise

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/12603

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