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Translator's Visibility and Paratexts: A Case Study on Tang De-gang's Translation of the Personal Reminiscences of Dr. Hu Shi.

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Title/Author:	Translator's Visibility and Paratexts: A Case Study on Tang De-gang's Translation of the Personal Reminiscences of Dr. Hu Shi./
Author:	Xu, Zhaoxing .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	276 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-09A.
Subject:	Translation studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27666393
ISBN:	9781392386255

Translator's Visibility and Paratexts: A Case Study on Tang De-gang's Translation of the Personal Reminiscences of Dr. Hu Shi.
Xu, Zhaoxing .

Translator's Visibility and Paratexts: A Case Study on Tang De-gang's Translation of the Personal Reminiscences of Dr. Hu Shi. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 276 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Translator's visibility has been a debatable issue among scholars in the international academia of translation studies ever since Laurence Venuti's book The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation (1995,2008) came into sight. Such debates remain unsettled, leaving huge space for further explorations. In terms of paratexts' relevance to translation, Kathryn Batchelor summarized the "key themes in paratext-related translation research" in her book Translation and Paratexts (31-32) which include "paratexts as documentary sources for historical research" and "paratexts as places of potential translation or translator visibility", and mentioned the potential overlaps in between. Reviewing these two aspects of scholarships enlightened the dissertation author to reflect on the correlations between these two separate issues and strive to make sense by probing into a specific case. Hereby, Tang De-gang's rendition of The Personal Reminiscences of Dr. Hu Shi has been selected as a typical case that involves massive and diverse paratexts in the translating procedures and the translation product. This research project explores the issue of translator's visibility by investigating the paratextual devices used in the translation and re-evaluates the relation between the source text and the translation text in the case so as to answer why the paratexts/paratextual elements in translation are crucial to the reception of writings like this. This research employs the concept of "paratext" as redefined and advocated by Kathryn Batchelor in her book Translation and Paratexts, which was developed from Gerard Genette's initial definition in Paratexts: Threshhold of Interpretation for the theoretical foregrounding of the whole exploration. Genette defines what is "a paratextual element" and further distinguishes "epitext" and "peritext" as two subtypes of paratext (Genette,1), while Batchelor actually extended the connotation of "paratext" by differentiating two situations - one is to view the translated text as the paratext to the source text, and the other is to look into the paratextual elements in translation by categorizing them into more subtypes - extratext, metatext, etc. (147-152). The dissertation argues that Mr. Tang De-gang has a personal habit of using annotations in both Chinese and English writings which clearly demonstrates his unique prosaic style --"Tangpai sanwen" (唐派散文) as remarked by Zhiqing Xia) that took decades to form through his diasporic academic experience. The discourse analysis in this research finds that his massive use of paratexts has a very salient pattern of 1st-person pronoun bi zhe, which tends to create a dramatic effect that makes his translator's voice so appealing that he seems to compete with the dominant 1st-person narrator ("Hu Shi's voice in the main text of his oral autobiography) in pursuit of self-expression. It concludes that Tang's stylistic visibility in his paratexts made the translated work more like his rewriting and thus blurred the identity boundary between writer and translator in this individual case. Meanwhile, in terms of the translation's quality, the pragmatic function of Tang's annotations is not very well achieved because the annotations tend to deviate from the focal topics and the genre nature of the translated book by providing the readers with excessive information.Key words: Translator's visibility, paratext, pragmatics, stylistics, informativeness, discourse analysis.

ISBN: 9781392386255Subjects--Topical Terms:

3310485
Translation studies.
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Discourse analysis

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