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As explicit expression of attitude is restrained in translations of canonical texts, the peritext often becomes a place for the translator’s attitudinal mediation. Unlike previous studies where the translational peritext is under the name of the translator, this study presents a special case in which the peritext attached to the translation of the...
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... type of attitude involves positive and negative feelings and can be further classified into specific categories. Table 1 serves as an illustration, with the focus on judgement, which is most frequently used in evaluating human characters and their behavior. ...Context 2
... is to say, while negative values of social esteem will be considered inappropriate or to be discouraged, negative values of social sanction will be assessed as sins or crimes (White and Rupert 2011). The exemplar expressions in Table 1 are explicit, direct realizations of attitude, which can also be expressed implicitly, or indirectly. When attitude is expressed explicitly, it is termed inscription, and when it is expressed implicitly, it is termed invocation. ...Similar publications
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... As unique Chinese linguistic and cultural phenomena were contained in ancient books, translating classics into English is not only a process from one language to another, but also a great leap from ancient to modern in time and from one country to another in space, which has brought lots of difficulties to the translation of classics, especially cultural translation (Yu and Wu, 2018). In order to help target language readers understand this kind of leap, a "cultural network" generated in the original language text can be constructed in the target language, under which the target language readers can understand the original text more easily, so as to avoid misunderstandings and distortion of the original text caused by incorporating it into the thinking pattern and cultural presupposition of local culture due to language conversion. ...
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