| Rhetoric is an important part of literary discourse,playing an essential role in conveying the meaning of a text and enhancing its artistic value and aesthetic effect.The rhetorician Robert L.Scott’s theory of cognitive rhetoric offers a new theoretical perspective on literary translation.Domestic rhetoricians also point out that the translator’s capacity for rhetorical cognition and his treatments of rhetorical discourse will largely affect the aesthetic effect of translation.In this report,I cite cases of translation of rhetorical figures that appear in the French short story collection L’Arche de Noé.I will try to explore how to construct a creative rhetorical language to translate the rhetorical figures of the book under the guidance of rhetorical cognition theory,so as to improve the literary quality of the translation and its aesthetic value as an independent text.This report is divided into four chapters.The first chapter aims to present the translation task,which includes the context of the translation project,the biography of the writer,the main content of the text and the characteristics of the text.The second chapter describes the translation process: 1.preparations: go through the original text and other works of the writer in order to understand the writer’s linguistic style,and determine the "theory of rhetorical cognition" as a theoretical tool;2.concrete process:take each short story as a unit and advance the translation in a targeted and planned way;3.proofreading and correction: resolve the problems in the translation,revise the version several times by comparing it with the original,invite my friend to read the translation to ensure the fluency of the language and the clarity of the meaning.The third chapter is the main part of this report.This chapter is divided into two subsections: the rhetorical cognition of a figure that achieves the effect of defamiliarization and its translation,the rhetorical cognition of a figure that achieves artistic effect and its translation.From the above two perspectives,this report discusses how translators make strategic choices and how to deal with rhetorical language when faced with specific rhetorical cases.The 4th chapter is a summary of this translation practice,including what rhetorical cognitive theory has taught me about literary translation.In this chapter,I review the gains and shortcomings of the whole translation project and understand what still needs to be improved in my future translation practice. |
