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Equivalent Tenor in
Translation: A Case Study on
Ophelia’s Confession
XUAN Junbin
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2020.07.003
Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, China
Tenor determines the Interpersonal Function of language within a context. A matching Tenor is indispensable when a translator attempts to reproduce a context in the target language; especially the translator is translating a dialogue. Translating Shakespeare’s dramas is necessarily doing with the dialogue translation, for which the content and interpersonal exchange is vital for transmitting the effect of those foreign readers. Through a comparative analysis on the source text and translated text of Ophelia’s confession in the drama Hamlet, it goes to show an equivalent Tenor can form a stage for the target readers to know how Ophelia’s minds settle and what the position she is at compared with Hamlet. It also proves that Register can be a reference to assessing whether a translation is equivalent to its original text as far as literature translation is concerned.
equivalent translation, Tenor analysis, Hamlet, translation assessment
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