The Explicitation and Deviation of Personal Pronouns in Chinese Literary Translation
HU Xianya · 2010
Through corpus-based analysis and comparison between Chinese literary translation corpus and the non-translated corpus,this paper attempts to explore the different features of personal pronouns in Chinese Literary Translation(CLT).It shows that the frequencies of each and all personal pronouns in CLT are significantly higher than the non-translated, which is taken as a proof of grammatical explicitation of CLT in contrast with Chinese original writing.Detailed studies have revealed that the frequency of re-occurrence oftaas well as its anaphoric function has been noticeably strengthened in CLT.Inconsistent references oftahave been traced in CLT,which obviously deviates from the norms of Chinese.It concludes that grammatical explicitation and deviation of personal pronouns in CLT might be the result of the influence of Source Language(eg.English),which is usually characterized by a higher level of morphology,but more importantly,they could be the reflections of Chinese literary translation norms.