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On the Cultural Untranslatability in Chinese-English Literary Translation
MENG Dou-dou, WANG Jing
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.09.013
Zhuhai College of Jilin University, Zhuhai, China
The paper is intended to study the cultural untranslatability in Chinese-English literary translation and its compensation with a view to find some practical strategies in translation when untranslatabiltiy occurs. Based on Eugene A. Nida’s classification of language culture, the author analyzes causes of cultural untranslatability in terms of ecological culture, material culture, social culture, religious culture, and linguistic culture through specific examples. As the cultural untranslatability is conditioned, variable, and dynamic, some translation strategies are proposed for tranferring untranslatability to translatability.
translatability, untranslatability, cultural untranslatability, Chinese-English translation
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