Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation: A Descriptive Study of Chinese Translations of Huckleberry Finn, Tess, and Pygmalion [Paperback]

Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive investigation of how dialect in British and American novels and dramas are translated into Chinese.

Jing Yu is an associate professor at School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, with a PhD in translation and interpreting studies from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include literary translation, translation theories, dialect translation, and audio-visual translation, on which she has published two books in Chinese and over two dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals including Target, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Perspectives, IRCL, Neohelicon, Language and Literature, and Chinese Translators Journal.

Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive investigation of how dialect in British and American novels and dramas is translated into Chinese.

Dialect plays an essential role in creating a voice of difference for the regional, social, or ethnic Others in English fiction. Translating dialect involves not only the textual representation of a different voice with target linguistic resources but also the reconstruction of various cultural, social, and ethnic identities and relations on the target side. This book provides a descriptive study of 277 Chinese translations published from 1931 to 2020 for three fictions  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tess of the dUrbervilles, and Pygmalion  with a special focus on how the Dorset dialect, African American Vernacular English, and cockney in thl£³