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Two Translations of the Judgment of A Dream of Red Mansions from the Perspective of Skopos Theory
CHEN Qian-yu
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.12.007
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
A Dream of Red Mansions is an ancient Chinese chapter-length fictional novel and the first of the Four Great Classical Novels of China. The judgments of the major characters within the book have been studied by many experts. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the translation strategies and their effects adopted by different translators for distinct translation purposes by comparing varied translations of the judgments and some of the allusions within them in the two English translations, Yang Xianyi and Hawkes.
A Dream of Red Mansions, judgments, skopos theory, comparative and analysis
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, December 2024, Vol. 14, No. 12, 1115-1120
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