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1、OntheTranslator’sCulturalAwarenessandCulturalCreativityOntheTranslator’sCulturalAwarenessandCulturalCreativity*ThispaperissponsoredbyHunanProvincialSocialScienceFundProgram:Cross-culturalCommunicationandTranslationAssessmentModel,chairedbyProf.GuoyuanTu.Abstract:Intranslation,whichhasbeenseenasinter
2、culturalcommunication,howandwhethercultureshouldbetransferreddependsandeach,eitheralienationoradaptation,withitsmeritsanddemerits,couldbejustifiedinitsownrightiflookedatfromacertainangle,andtheissueisthatthetranslatorshouldknowwhatheisdoingandhashisculturalawarenessandcreativityintheactualoperationo
3、fculturalelements.Keywords:culturetranslationalienationadaptationculturalawarenessculturalcreativityWiththeinfluenceof,amongothers,communicationtheory,thestateoftheartoftranslationstudiesoverthepastseveraldecadescanfindbestexpressioninashiftfromalinguisticapproachtoaculturalapproach.Withthetwoapproa
4、chesintegrated,translationhasnowbeenbroadlyseenasanactofinterculturalcommunication(GuoJianzhong,2000).Sofar,muchliteraturehasbeendevotedtothehotsubjectofculturaltranslation,andthedisputebetweenalienationandadaptationhasbeenoneofthecentralissuesconcerned.Peoplearealwaysaskinghowandwhethercultureshoul
5、dbetransferred.Inthisthesis,theauthorholdsthathowandwhethercultureshouldbetransferreddependsandeach,eitheralienationoradaptation,withitsmeritsanddemerits,couldbejustifiedinitsownrightiflookedatfromacertainangle,andtheissueisthatthetranslatorshouldknowwhatheisdoingandhashisculturalawarenessandcreativ
6、ityintheactualprocessoftranslation.Cultureisanambiguousandintriguingconcept.WhathasbeentermedtheclassicdefinitionofculturewasprovidedbyEdwardBurnettTylor,thefatherofculturalanthropology,inhisPrimitiveCulture(1871):“Culture…isthatcomplexwholewhichincludesknowledge,belief,art,morals,law,customs,andany
7、othercapabilitiesandhabitsacquiredbymanasamemberofasociety.”Actuallyonepersoncanputuponedefinitionandtenpersonscanputuptendefinitions.Somepeoplesaythatthereare160definitionsforculture,andsomeotherssay