从文化误读视角看美剧字幕汉译-以美剧《破产姐妹》为例_英语论文

An Analysis on the Translation Strategies for American TV Subtitle from the Perspective of Cultural Misreading -----Take 2 Broke Girls as an Example

摘要

互联网使世界日益像一个地球村，人们之间的文化交流也日益频繁，而美剧由于其通俗易懂等特性逐渐进入人们的生活，成为了文化交流的主要途径，由此产生了大量的字幕组，然而字幕翻译的质量将决定文化交流的传达效果，但是文化差异的存在，字幕组不可能完全遵从剧情字面意思，只能联系剧情和中西文化理解美剧台词意义，转化原剧信息，最终将原剧译成中文呈现于观众，这个过程中因为外来文化及中国文化的影响，经常发生文化误读。

本文包括引言，文献回顾，翻译方法分析和结论三部分。引言介绍了在全球化的影响下美剧逐渐成为中美文化交流的桥梁，以及不同文化交流过程中产生文化误读是不可避免的。 

第二部分引出文化误读的产生的原因，然后分析美剧字幕有何特点，第三部分具体问题具体分析，以《破产姐妹》为例讨论直译与意译的翻译方法。

结论总结应该正确看待文化误读，在全球化的大背景下，在文化不断碰撞的过程中，字幕翻译将会是一个不断需要探索的研究。

关键词：文化误读 ；翻译方法；破产姐妹

Abstract

Internet has truly turned the world into a global village. Economic and culture communication among people is more frequently. And owing to the characteristics such as easy-to-understand of American drama, it gradually comes in our daily life and it is the main way of cultural communication. So, the fansubs spring up like mushrooms. It decides the effect of cultural communication by the quality of subtitling translation. On the other hand, the existence of cultural differences decide that the fansub cannot completely translate as literal meaning, so it just can real understand by relating gut, then, transfer it and translate into Chinese for audiences finally. However, because the influence of foreign cultural factors and Chinese cultural factors, the process always leads to cultural misreading

This paper includes four parts: introduction, literature review, translation skills and conclusion.

Introduction told us American TV as a kind of media, which builds a bridge between the Chinese culture and America culture, the process will produce unavoidable cultural misreading

Second parts explains the cause of cultural misreading, then analyze the American TV subtitles’ features. In third part, it discusses the translation skills according to 2 Broke Girls to analyze the cultural misreading.

All in all, the last paragraph sum up the right attitude of cultural misreading, under the background of globalization, the subtitling translation will be a continuable study.

Keywords: cultural misreading; translation skills; 2 Broke Girls

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

2.1An Overview on Cultural Misreading……………………………………......2

2.2 A Brief Review on Subtitling Translation 4

3. The Skills of Subtitling Translation in 2 Broke Girls from the Perpective of Cultural Misreading 6

3.1 Literal Translation 7

3.2 Free Translation 8

4. Conclusion 9

Works Cited 11