A Report On The Translation Of Children Literature From The Perspective Of Reception Aesthetics

This thesis is a translation report of Children Literature The Year of Billy Miller which is an inspirational children best-selling book by Kevin Henkes, a famous American writer for children. This thesis selects Chapter Ⅲ and Chapter Ⅳ Two of the novel as the source text, and provides the corresponding translation in Chinese. Although the field of literary translation is developing and becoming increasingly mature, the translation of Children Literature is not studied in-depth and translated widely, which is still in a marginal position. Children are the hope and future of a nation, a good children’s publication plays a guiding role to form the correct values and outlook for children. Therefore, the thesis author thinks to select and translate Children Literature is also very important.The translation practice report is to find out the difficulties in the process of translation and use the corresponding methods to solve problems. In the translation process of this text, the thesis author used the theory of Reception Aesthetics Reader-Centered Principle and the corresponding strategies to deal with words, sentences and dialogues. The thesis author tries her best to choose words which are often used by children, such as reduplication and onomatopoetic words so that the words are more lively, attracting the attention of young readers, and thus more acceptable to young readers. As for sentences, the thesis author uses the corresponding translation methods to deal with the typical difficulties which appear in the text to make the logic simpler and easier for children to understand. As for dialogues, since this text contains a lot of dialogues, the thesis author divides the dialogues into two types:dialogues between adults and children and dialogues between children. In order to transfer American cultural information, The thesis author translates something which is difficult to understand into Chinese that children is easy to understand or something they are familiar with and which exists in daily life so as to make it easier for Chinese children to understand American culture.From this translation practice the thesis author learns that a qualified translator should have solid language skills, a wealth of cultural knowledge and some knowledge of translation theory to do a good translation job and they also need to constantly improve their translation skills and professionalism in translation practice.