A Rustic Opinion on Translation Methods of Humorous Language in English

DOI

10.2991/msetasse-15.2015.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English Humors; Desperate Housewives; Translation of Figures of Speech; Free Transltion

Abstract

Humorous language is the most important part of the English language, and also it reflects the features of English language. It is essential to consider the divisities on national culture, character, the way of thinking and living background between China and England when we try to translate these humorous language to chinese. That is the reason why we think the translation is part of difficult. This paper selects the translation of figures of speech, and we attempt to investigate the application of figures of speech on chinese translation through dialogues of “Desperate Housewives”.

Copyright

© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Yongqiang Xia
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - A Rustic Opinion on Translation Methods of Humorous Language in English
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 3rd International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 330
EP  - 333
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/msetasse-15.2015.75
DO  - 10.2991/msetasse-15.2015.75
ID  - Xia2015/11
ER  -