Translator’s narrative intervention in the English translation of Jin Yong’s The Legend of Condor Heroes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12183233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lin Chen (0000-0001-5135-3998, Southwest Jiaotong University), Chen Lin (0000-0002-5118-5573, Southwest Jiaotong University, corresponding author), Ruoyu Dai (0000-0001-5251-7085, Southwest Jiaotong University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1043-1058 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-676X • E-ISSN: 1747-6623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0907676x.2021.1974062 |
| OpenAlex | W3196516054 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
The success of the English translation of Jin Yong's martial arts novel The Legend of Condor Heroes ('LCH') has challenged the view that Jin's works are untranslatable, demanding new scholarly interpretations. With a corpus-aided approach, this paper investigates the translator's narrative intervention based on the omissions in LCH's English translation. This study demonstrates an average omission rate of 21.1%, with most omitted content falling into three categories, namely, historical-cultural information, fighting-scene information, and character-perception information. The omissions have reshaped LCH's narrative structure with the removal of actions at the story level, the shortening of narrative time at the narrative level, and the transformation of consciousness presentation and the reduction of narratorial interference at the narration level. Such intervention is aimed at resolving the conflicts of narrative norms between the source and target cultures. By following the target narrative norms, the translator has turned LCH into a fast-paced modern-looking English fantasy, which may be one of the reasons for its success. This finding reaffirms that adherence to target norms is conducive to the acceptance of translations of martial arts novels
Art · Legend · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Source text · Storytelling · History · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Translation Studies and Practices
Narrative Discourse
Narratology
Introducing Translation Studies
Siting Translation
The Translator's Voice in Translated Narrative
Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
Ideological struggle and cultural intervention in online discourse
The translation of narrative fiction
Narratology meets Translation Studies, or, The Voice of the Translator in Children’s Literature
The Classic Chinese Novel
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |