Western Female Translation Theorists and Their Translation Views

Zhang Yingxian; Zhang Xiaobo

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Western Female Translation Theorists and Their Translation Views

Zhang Yingxian, Zhang Xiaobo

Published in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 4, Issue 4)

Received: 3 December 2018 Accepted: 21 December 2018 Published: 22 January 2019

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Abstract

This paper explores some translation schools or translation theories advocated by the female translation theorists in the west, who, hard-working and sensitive in translation studies, challenging the traditional translation principles and criteria, have been pioneering in the trend of cultural turn and opened up new areas of translation studies of post-colonialism translation norms, corpus-based translation research and conflict in war and functional translation viewpoint with outrageous novelties, and flaunting the signs of female translation theories. It calls for the attention to their major translation concepts and the importance of their studies in the translation field. Firstly, behind the feminist translation theory, there are profound cultural, educational backgrounds and important identities. They, brave and strong, with sharp tongue, have different cognition to the faithfulness of translation theory from the female standpoint, and create an iconic female English word "womenhandling" to evaluate the translated text. Second, the translation perspective paid close attention to by feminist translation theorists deeply reflects their feminist translation aesthetics, values and the unique cognition of their female gender characteristics in translation. Thirdly, feminist translation theorists have a unique understanding of the nature of translation with sensitive to the trend of translation, and novel perspectives. Their specific viewpoints and indelible contributions can`t be ignored in the world translation field.

Published in	International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 4, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijalt.20180404.11
Page(s)	58-64
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the Translation History of the West, the Female Translation Theorists in the West, Creation of Translation Theories, Their Contribution to Translation

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Zhang Yingxian

English Department, South China Business College, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
Zhang Xiaobo

English Department, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

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