目的论指导下的电影《心花路放》字幕英译的中期报告.docx

目的论指导下的电影《心花路放》字幕英译的中期报告
Introduction
Asatypeofdiscourseanalysis,SFL(systemicfunctionallinguistics)offersapowerfultheoreticalframeworkforexploringthelanguageandmeaningofdifferenttexts.WiththeaimofapplyingSFLtotheanalysisofsubtitlesinthemovie“UsandThem,”thisreportfocusesonthemid-termprogressoftranslatingitssubtitlesfromChinesetoEnglish.Specifically,thisreportwillexaminethemacroandmicro-levellinguisticfeaturesofthesubtitles,aswellasthesocial,political,andculturalfactorsthatinfluencethetranslationprocess.
Macro-levelAnalysis
Atthemacro-level,theanalysisofthesubtitlesin“UsandThem”revealsthedynamicinterplaybetweenlanguage,context,andculture.Throughtheuseoflanguage,thetranslationinteractswiththesocialandculturalcontextsofboththesourceandthetargetlanguage.Forexample,themovietitle“心花路放”literallymeans“Heartflowerroadreleased”inChinese.Themetaphoricalexpressionsuggeststhattheprotagonistisfree-spirited,optimistic,andadventurous.However,theEnglishsubtitle“UsandThem”conveysadifferentconnotationandregistersadifferentmeaning.Itdenotesthedichotomybetween“us”and“them,”highlightingtheoppositionalrelationshipbetweendifferentsocialgroups,whichisnotreflectedintheoriginaltitle.
Micro-levelAnalysis
Atthemicro-level,theanalysisfocusesonthegrammatical,semantic,andpragmaticaspectsofthesubtitles.Oneofthelinguisticfeaturesistense,whichiscrucialforindicatingthetemporalrelationshipbetweeneventsinthemovieandforconveyingthetoneandmoodofthestory.Inthesourcelanguage,theverbsareinthepresenttense,whichcreatesanimmediateandvividnarrativeeffect.However,theEnglishsubtitlesusethepasttense,whichproducesamoredistantandreflectiveeffect.Forexample,inthescenewheretheprotagonististakingaphotographofthesunrise,theoriginalChinesesubtitleusesthepresenttense“我正在拍日出”toindicatetheactiveandongoingnatureoftheaction.However,theEnglishsubtitleusesthepasttense“Itookapictureofthesunrise”toindicatethecompletionoftheactionandthereflectivenatureofthememory.
Anotherfeatureismodality,whichreferstothesubjectiveandevaluativemeani