Facing Chapter Titles in Chinese Classical Novels: an analysis and a comparison of the Chinese-Spanish translations of Journey to the West
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https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2021.v1i25.10659Keywords:
Journey to the West, literary translation, corpus, titles, Chinese-SpanishAbstract
In this research, we have studied the headings of the one hundred chapters of Journey to the West, and two of its translations in Spanish. By building up a corpus with these texts, we analyzed the main features and the differences among them -in particular, at the syntactic, semantic, and lexical/terminological levels-, as well as the different ways in which linguists translated the original text, and the resources they used to carry out their task. Likewise, we confirm the difficulty of translating into Castilian a book written in Mandarin Chinese, and the loss of relevant information during the translation process, due to the difficulty of keeping the style, the rhythm, capturing the cross-cultural aspects in Spanish, and of translating correctly the terminological items of the eastern religions.
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