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Translation Study on Figurative Rhetoric in Folding Beijing From the Perspective of Skopos Theory



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REN Rui, GUO Zhi-li, ZENG Jia-li, ZHANG Le-le

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2018.03.006

Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

HAO Jing-fang, a Chinese writer with her novel Folding Beijing, was awarded the 2016 Hugo Award, the top award in global science fiction community, the second for Chinese science fiction writers after LIU Ci-xin for his The Three-Body Problem, which stroke a strong shockwave to the science fiction community around the world. It cannot be denied that Ken LIU’s translation has played an irreplaceable role in the success of Folding Beijing. Unfortunately, there are a few studies on LIU’s translation of Folding Beijing, let alone with Skopos theory. This paper refers to massive studies on it by scholars at home and abroad and is based on a careful reading of Folding Beijing, its translation counterpart and concludes that the translator adopts Skopos theory in translating figurative rhetoric by linking the three basic roles with the LIU’s ideas on translation. This paper studies the translation on the figurative rhetoric in Folding Beijing and extracts so many typical sentences as to certify the flexible strategies and methods adopted by the author under Skopos theory, which conforms to the reading habit and taste of the target audience and provides a paradigm for the future translation of Chinese science fictions.

Folding Beijing, Skopos theory, figurative rhetoric, translation strategy