The Study On Translation Strategies Of Culture From Cultural Turn In Outlaws Of The Marsh

As one of the four classic Chinese works, Outlaws of the Marsh written by Shi Naian enjoys a great reputation at home and abroad. It is considered to be a live dictionary displaying the overall characteristics of the special humanity in the feudal society. It has been translated into many languages and exerts a significant influnce in the field of literature all over the world. The translated text by Sidney Shapiro is renowned as the best one among all of versions.The translation of culture takes up a considerable position for the spread of Chinese literature because of the close relation between language and culture. It is obvious that language has its meaning only under cultural background and culture is the ground on which language can exist and develop. Culture is a complexity including specific things, knowledge, belief, art, moral, laws, custom, competence and habits we get from nature and society. The study of culture has developed into a new approach to undertake the study on literature because the relation between the text and the outside world is what it mainly concerned.Different scholars have made various classification of culture based on their own knowledge and their comprehension of the world. According to the formality of culture, it is classified into four types: material culture, system culture, activity culture and mentality culture.The traditional definition of translation has changed so much that it must "switch from a single linguistics-oriented definition to a plurality of culturally inspired definitions. The study of translation as a means of communication should break out of the confines of language and enter a broader cross-cultural context. (Wang Ning, 2005:5) The dissertation makes a general description of cultural turn concerning some significant areas such as the origin of cultural turn, the formation, the development, the impact of cultural turn on translation as well as the shocks including the selection of translation inclination and the new role for translator to play caused by cultural turn in the world of translation. An approach of translation after cultural turn and language functions are also mentioned a little for the further study of cultural turn.At last, the dissertation comes to the study on translation strategies of culture in Outlaws of the Marsh. There are several problems mainly discussed about cultural translation inculding the ones generated by lack of cultural-loaded referents, by difference derived from gramma, by different ways in which people express the same comcept, by different associations sprung from the same object in the source language and target language, by difference in the speech sounds between two languages. The translator of Outlaws of the Marsh Sidney Shapiro is best-known for his mastery of Chinese. He employs mainly eight methods to operate the cultural translation including literal translation, a combination of literal translation and explanation, free translation, free translation with annotation, generalization, ellipsis, transliteration and annotation as well as borrowing.With the development of the globalization and the growing exchange of politics, economy and culture, translation is taking up an important position in international communication, and the communication of cross-culture is becoming more and more popular. Nowadays, an increasing number of scholars at home and abroad pay their more attention to the relation between translation and culture, and cultural globalization is challenging the traditional translation studies. Cultural studies have contributed to the new idea that translation is not transformation on the language level, but interpretation of culture. Cultural turn expands a new way to study on translation. Aimimg to stress the great importance of cultural studies to translation, the author makes a tentative study on translation strategies of culture in Outlaws of the Marsh from the perspective of cultural turn.