Lao She's Teahouse and Its Two English Translations: Exploring Chinese Drama Translation with Systemic Functional Linguistics [Paperback]

Lao Shes Teahouse and Its Two English Translations: Exploring Chinese Drama Translation with Systemic Functional Linguistics provides an in-depth application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to the study of Chinese drama translation, and theoretically explores the interface between SFL and drama translation.

Investigating two English translations of the Chinese drama, Teahouse (6? Cha Guan in Chinese) by Lao She, and translated by John Howard-Gibbon and Ying Ruocheng respectively, Bo Wang and Yuanyi Ma apply Systemic Functional Linguistics to point out the choices that translators have to make in translation.

This book is of interest to graduates and researchers of Chinese translation and discourse studies.

Contents

Foreword

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations and Symbols

Abbreviations for Interlinear Glossing

Acknowledgements

Preface

1.1 Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation

1.1.1 Early Studies before the 1970s

1.1.2 Studies from the 1970s to the Millennium

1.1.3 Studies after the Millennium

1.2 Three Kinds of Text in Lao Shes Teahouse

1.3 Analytical Framework and Data Size

2.1 A Description of Mood in Systemic Functional Terms

2.2 Analysis of Mood in Dramatic Dialogue

2.2.1 A Quantitative Profile of Mood Distribution in Dramatic Dialogue