功能对等理论视域中的电影字幕翻译-以《百万美元宝贝》为例_英语论文

On Subtitle Translation of Million Dollar Baby from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory

摘要

电影是现代生活中不可缺少的大众传播艺术，其发展使字幕翻译也逐渐成为一个新的翻译领域。电影《百万美元宝贝》在电影史上获得了很大的成就，至今还为人们所称赞。除了影片的故事情节外，字幕翻译对本影片内容主题的有效传达及其广泛传播到世界各地也起到了极其重要的作用。而目前对电影《百万美元宝贝》的研究都是侧重于其英雄主义价值观和体育精神，缺少对其字幕翻译的策略和质量研究。因此，本文从奈达的功能对等角度出发，对电影《百万美元宝贝》的字幕翻译进行了个案研究，得出功能对等理论可以为电影字幕翻译提供理论参考的结论。

关键词：字幕翻译；《百万美元宝贝》；功能对等理论

Abstract

Movies are indispensable parts of arts of mass communication in modern life, and consequently, the development of the movie industry across the world also makes subtitle translation a new and important field of translation practice. Million Dollar Baby has made great achievements in the history of the movie that is still praiseworthy today. Besides the well claimed narration of the story, subtitle translation plays a significant role in both showing the theme effectively and spreading across all over the world. Whereas most of the studies of the film Million Dollar Baby place emphasis on individual heroism and sportsmanship, there is a lack of research on the strategies of subtitle translation. Thus this paper adopts the case study of subtitle translation from the perspective of Nida’s functional equivalence and proposes that functional equivalence theory can be fine-tuned to provide guidance for subtitle translation practice.

Keywords: subtitle translation; Million Dollar Baby；Functional equivalence theory

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

2.1 Review on subtitle translation 1

2.2 Review on functional equivalence theory 3

3. The Applications of Functional Equivalence Theory in Subtitle Translation in Million Dollar Baby 5

3.1 Linguistic equivalence 5

3.2 Stylistic equivalence 7

3.3 Cultural equivalence 10

4. Conclusion 13

Works Cited 15