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Abstract

ChineseFolkWisecracksareanindispensablepartofChineselanguageandculture.Asasortoflanguagethatiswidelyspokenbylaboringandworkingpeople,ChineseFolkWisecracksareusedtoexpresstheirthoughtsorfeelingsduringpracticeintheirlives.Theyareknownforliveandfunnyexpressionswhichshowusthousandsofyears’historyandenableustoacquiresomeusefulinformationandfactsofourcountry’spolitics,economyaswellaspeople’sdailylife，feelings,theirviewoftheworldandlife.TodaycommunicationsamongdifferentnationsaremorefrequentandtheChineselanguageandculturearemoreandmorepopulartoforeignersintheworldaswearemovingtowardsglobalization.ThereforehowtomaketheChineseFolkWisecracksfamiliartoforeignersbecomeextremelyimportant.ThisthesisattemptstoputforwardsometranslatingstrategiesoftheChineseFolkWisecracksafteracomprehensiveandsoundanalysisofthelanguagecharacteristicsandclassificationsinordertomakeitnotonlyappropriateintranslationbutalsounderstandabletotheforeignersandconducivetomaketheChineselanguageandculturewellknownallaroundtheworld.

Keywords:

ChineseFolkWisecracks;

languagecharacteristics;

translatingstrategies;

globalization

摘要

歇后语是中国语言和文化中不可或缺的一部分。

歇后语在我国广大劳动人民中广为流传，是人们长期生活实践中产生的用来表达其思想和情感的一种俗语。

歇后语以其诙谐幽默的表达而广受人们的喜爱，它为我们展示了中国数千年的历史，丰富了我们对我国政治，经济以及人们的日常生活和情感，世界观和人生观等方面的知识。

如今，随着我们不断迈向全球化，各国间的交流也变地日渐频繁，汉语及中国文化也越来越受到世界各地的人们的喜爱。

因此，如何使外国人熟悉歇后语变得十分重要。

这篇论文在分析了汉语歇后语的语言特点及其分类的基础上，进而提出了相应的翻译策略，力求做到在恰当翻译的同时，也能使外国读者易于理解从而使得更多人都能够了解中国的语言和文化。

关键词:

歇后语；

语言特点；

翻译策略；

全球化。

Contents

Abstracti

摘要ii

Ⅰ.Introduction１

Ⅱ.ChineseFolkWisecracks４

2.1LanguageCharacteristicsofChineseFolkWisecracks４

2.1.1Humor４

2.1.2Implicitness５

2.1.3Figurativeness５

2.2ClassificationsofChineseFolkWisecracks６

2.2.1FigurativeChineseFolkWisecracks６

2.2.2PunnyChineseFolkWisecracks７

2.2.3AllusiveChineseFolkWisecracks９

Ⅲ.TranslatingStrategiesforChineseFolkWisecracks１０

3.1TranslatingStrategiesforFigurativeChineseFolkWisecracks１０

3.1.1LiteralTranslation１０

3.1.2CorrespondingTranslation１１

3.2TranslatingStrategiesforPunnyChineseFolkWisecracks１２

3.2.1LiteralTranslationwithNotes１３

3.2.2LiberalTranslation１４

3.3TranslatingStrategiesforAllusiveChineseFolkWisecracks１５

3.3.1LiteralTranslationwithNotes１６

3.3.2CorrespondingTranslationwithNotes１７

Ⅳ.Conclusion１９

Bibliography２１

Acknowledgements２２

Ⅰ.Introduction

Withthedevelopmentofeducationandscienceandtechnology,internationalcommunicationandcooperationismoreandmorefrequentineconomy,politicsandculture,inwhichCulturalexchangesisespeciallyinevitable.

Languageandcultureisinfiltratingtheotherfusedwitheachother,organiccombined.AsakindofthemosttypicalidiomsinChinesenation,ChineseFolkWisecracksarenaturallyanimportantbranchofChineseculture,whichisanorallanguagewidelyspokenbyworkingpeople.Theyhaveacloserelationshipwithhistoricalbackground,economiclife,geographicalenvironment,customs,habits,psychologicalstateandsoon（Fernando,2000:

78）.Insomesense,idiomsarelikemirrors,reflectingthefeaturesofnationalcultureandaestheticandcustomsoflanguageinprofoundmanners（Kramshch,2000:

82）.

Inordertoexpresspeople’sthoughtsduringtheirlong-termpracticeintheirlives,ChineseFolkWisecrackshavemanycharacters,includingliveliness,popularity,implicitnessandhumor,etc.SomeChineseFolkWisecracksarefullofimaginationandsomecontaintheimplicationofstrongirony.Inaword,theyareanartisticformlikedbyallofthepeople.TheChineseFolkWisecrackshaveaninfluenceonthelanguagebymethodsofmetaphor,simileandpunandsoon;

andfamousliteraryworksareoftenusedinthey.Meanwhile,theirspeciallanguageformandethnicpropertyleadtofailuresintheprocessoftranslation.Therefore,thestudyofthetranslationofChineseFolkWisecracksareespeciallyimportantanduseful.

ManyscholarshavepaidattentiontothetranslationoftheChineseFolkWisecracks.Andtheyputforwardsometranslationstrategiestostudythem.

ResearcherssuchasLiYanbo（2006）,LiXingjian（2011）,havemadestudiesofdefinition,origin,natureandrhetoricdevicesofChineseFolkWisecracksandexpresstheirownthought.WangJinzheng（1997）supposedthattheChineseFolkWisecracksincludethreetypesaccordingtosyntacticstructureafteranalysingtherhetoricandgrammaticalstructure,.

FengQinghua（1997）presentedthatthetranslationoftheChineseFolkWisecracksshouldbefigurativeandadoptedvariousforms,andtheliberaltranslationisnotenough.

HuangYahui（2006）,ayoungscholar,thoughtthatforeignizationwasagoodtranslationmethodtotranslateChineseFolkWisecracks,butsometimestheycontainedculturalelementsandbackground,whichtargetreadersareextremelystrange.

Basedonthestudiesabove,thisthesistriestoproposesometranslationstrategiesoftheChineseFolkWisecracksonthebasisofsoundandsystematicanalysisofclassificationsandlanguagecharacteristicsoftheChineseFolkWisecracksinordertomakeitnotonlyappropriateintranslationbutatthesametime,understandabletotheforeigners.Thisthesis’sinquiryintothetranslationoftheChineseFolkWisecrackswillbeconducivetothespreadofourChinesecultureandfurtherpromotetheinterculturalcommunicationsmoothlyandmaketheChineselanguageandcultureworld-known.

Ⅱ.ChineseFolkWisecracks

ChineseFolkWisecracksareheavilyculturallyloadedphrasesandsentences.Theyarepervasiveinspeechesandwritings.Havingtheirownuniquefeatures,ChineseFolkWisecracksaretheeliteoflanguageinourcountry.Asasortoflanguagewidelyspokenbylaboringandworkingpeople,ChineseFolkWisecracksareusedtoexpresstheirthoughtsorfeelingsduringpracticeintheirlives.Theyareknownfortheirliveandfunnyexpressions.

2.1LanguageCharacteristicsofChineseFolkWisecracks

ChineseFolkWisecracks,asaparticulartypeofcommonsayingsinChinese,distinguishthemselvesfromtheotheronesinthematteroftheirspeciallanguagefeatureslikehumor,implicitnessandfigurativeness.

2.1.1Humor

ChineseFolkWisecracksareakindofidioms,alanguageunit,whichareorallyspokenandspreadandalsopopularamongthecommonpeople.Theyarethesortofidiomswhicharemosthumorouscomparedwithproverbs,setphrases,maximsandaphorisms;

thusfullydeservethetitle“TheKingofHumor”.Forexample,

电线杆上绑鸡毛—好大的掸（胆）子。

[T]:

Featherstiedonthepole—Howbigthedusteris!

（Howdareit!

）

猪八戒戴耳环—自以为美。

ZhuBajiewearstheearrings—pleasedwithhimself.

Thesetwoexamplesarebothhumorous.ThefirstpartsofthesetwoChineseFolkWisecrackstakeonsenseofhumorbecauseoftheirfunnyorextraordinaryactionsorsubstances,forinstance,“电线杆上绑鸡毛”（totiefeathersonthepole）isanactionthatquitefunnyandimpractical.Besides,“掸”（duster）and“胆”（dare）arehomophonesinChineseand“好大的胆子”（Howdareit）,whichiscynicalandhumorousandisusuallyusedtodescribethatone’sbehaviorisinappropriate.Thesecondexample“猪八戒戴耳环”（ZhuBajiewearstheearrings）islaughable,whichimpliesevenifhewearstheearringsforornamentheisstillugly,resultinginironicandhumorouseffect.Andwhenthetwofolkwisecracksusedinthecertainessaysorconversations,humorcanbeproducedcorrespondinglyastheirconnotativemeaningsareinconsistencewiththecontextsorsituations.

SoitisobviousthattheseexamplesofChineseFolkWisecracksarequitehumorousandinteresting.Nowonderpeoplearefondofthemandoftenusetheminconversationsandliteraryworks.

2.1.2Implicitness

Inmicrocosmicsense,theprincipalcontentofChineseFolkWisecracksiscommonpeople’spracticallifewhichreflectstheirmentalthoughts,theirworldoutlooksandlifephilosophy.

Fromthemacroscopicway,ChineseFolkWisecracksareakindofculturallanguageanditsculturalpeculiaritiesgiveexpressionstothepronunciationharmonyandfullypresentthebeautyofChinesenationallanguage.ThemeaningoftheChineseFolkWisecracksisusuallyhintedinsteadofbeingrevealed;

andimplicitnessbeautyisshowedinanobviousway.Forexample,

孔夫子搬家—净是书（输）。

Confuciusmakesamove—fullofbooks（matchesorgamblingallthetimeorthingsarealwaysunsatisfactory）.

Literally,thisexampletellspeoplethatsinceConfuciusisawell-learnedscholar,ifhemakesamove,theremustbelotsofbooksforhimtocarrywith.However,thepragmaticmeaningistodescribethematchesorgamblingallthetimeunsatisfactoryasamatteroffact;

orinotherwords,theresultsofthingsarealwaysunsatisfactory.

Here“书”（book）,homophonesfor“输”（failure）,isusedtomaketherealmeaningnotsoapparent.Peoplejustcannotacquiretheconnotativemeaningonlyintheliterallevel,thatis,itisfilledwithimplicitness.

2.1.3Figurativeness

Apartfromhumorandimplicitness,mostoftheChineseFolkWisecracksarealsovividinimageandeasyforpeopletounderstandandmemorize,callingpeoplefordeepthought.Toindicatethemeaning,ChineseFolkWisecracksusethelivelyandspecificimagerytomakeametaphorsoastogivepeopleafigurativeimpression;

asaconsequence,peopleareabletocomprehendthemetaphoricmeaningwithoutdifficultyandgetrevelationfromit.Figurativene