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Review on the Translation of Movie Titles
By
Qi Yushan
Submitted to the Department of Foreign Language of Shandong University of Political Science and Law in Partial Fulfillment to the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English
Under the Supervision of Professor Juntong
May, 2010
Acknowledgements
I gratefully acknowledge all those people who have assisted me in the process of completing my graduation thesis. Without their help, this thesis would have been impossible.
First and foremost, I would like to express my great appreciation to my supervisor, Ms. Liang Juntong, who has followed my toils with invariable kindness and patience, reading as well as correcting this dissertation at different stages of its conception, giving me advice instructive and constructive in addition to valuable encouragement.
My thanks also go to Ms. Yuan and Ms. Bi for their encouragements and suggestions in the opening defense of this paper which have given me much benefit in writing it.
Finally, thanks go to my classmates and my dearest parents, who in one way or another have given me help and encouragement during my work on this thesis.
Review on the Translation of Movie Titles
Abstract: Translation is an art, as well as the translation of movie titles. Malcolm Cowley says “Translation is an art that involves the re-creation of a work in another language for readers with a different background” (陈德彰). There is no denying that the translation of movie titles is one kind of translation, belonging to the overall scope of a translation, but it still has its uniqueness. As an audiovisual art, movie is one of the most influential mass media, it follows and reflects people’s life and it is a product of culture. The movie title, being short in form but rich in meaning, has its own cultural, linguistic, ae