摘 要

影视作品是最具当代特征的文化载体之一, 其表现形式、语言艺术及文化底蕴均体现出浓郁的时代特征, 反映了当代社会的各种思潮, 折射出社会各阶层、各群体最具典型意义的意识形态。20世纪末，随着经济全球化的加深、科学技术的日新月异以及当代传媒的多元化特别是计算机、网络等多种先进传播媒体的普及，大量国外优秀影视作品进入中国市场，成为跨文化交际的一种普遍而重要的方式。作为影视翻译主要手段之一的字幕翻译，因其成本低、时效高等优点越来越广泛地被大众使用，受关注度也不断提高。但是，相对传统的文学翻译而言，字幕翻译由于其通俗大众性，翻译质量还有待进一步提高，国内外对这一领域也尚未形成完整的、成熟的理论体系，字幕翻译在翻译界地位仍比较低下。本文选取了电影字幕翻译为主要研究对象，探索分析字幕翻译可能遇到的问题，并以奈达的功能对等理论为指导，尝试性提出一些字幕翻译的有效策略，如减译、归化、保持原文语言和文体风格以及补充非语言信息等。 

关键词：字幕翻译；问题；功能对等；翻译策略

Abstract

Audio-visual products are one of the most characteristic cultural carriers in contemporary era, in which the forms of presentation, artistic language and cultural deposits all reveal the strong features of the time, various thoughts of modern society, and most typical ideologies of different social classes and groups. Ever since the end of the 20th century, with the deepening of economic globalization, the advancement of science and technology and the diversity of contemporary media, with computers and the Internet particularly stressed, a large number of excellent foreign audio-visual products have been imported to China, which has become a common and important way of cross-cultural communication. As one of the primary means of audio-visual translation, subtitle translation has been adopted in a much wider scope owing to its low cost and high efficiency. However, compared with traditional literary translation, due to its popularity and easy access, the quality of subtitle translation needs to be further improved and there has not been a mature and complete theoretical system. Even the status of subtitle translation is still relatively low in the translation industry. Selecting the film subtitle translation as its main object, this thesis aims to explore and analyze some related problems in the process of subtitle translation and tries to put forward some tentative strategies of subtitle translation such as reduction, domestication, retaining the original linguistic and stylistic flavor and addition of non-language information based on Eugene A. Nida’s Theory of Functional Equivalence.

Key words: subtitle translation; problems; Functional Equivalence; strategies

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Definitions of Subtitle
The Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines subtitle as “the words printed over a film in a foreign language to translate what is being said by the actors”. [1] According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary, subtitle is “words that translate what is said in a film or movie into a different language and appear on the screen at the bottom and subtitles are also used, especially on television to help deaf people or people who can’t hear well”.