Sanyan is a collection of classic Chinese vernacular short stories in the Ming Dynasty, in which unique narrative markers are often used to help the development of the story as well as the discourse. In their English translation of Sanyan, Shuihui Yang and Yunqin Yang preserve essential points of the overt narration and overt commentary, so as to outline the storyteller’s efforts to create the simulated context and clearly organize the structure of narrating process. Nonetheless, other insignificant narrative markers are deleted or replaced due to redundancy and conflicts with the English norms, as they are concerned with details of a character or inessential background information. With the usage of first person pronouns and the replacement with deixis, the translators manage to narrow the distance between the narrator and the reader. Hence, the Yangs’ translation not only gives an alien sense of the Chinese vernacular story, but also makes the narrative text more concise and flexible for the target reader.
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The English Translation of Sanyan, Narrative Markers, Overt Narration, Overt Commentary
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abstract = {Sanyan is a collection of classic Chinese vernacular short stories in the Ming Dynasty, in which unique narrative markers are often used to help the development of the story as well as the discourse. In their English translation of Sanyan, Shuihui Yang and Yunqin Yang preserve essential points of the overt narration and overt commentary, so as to outline the storyteller’s efforts to create the simulated context and clearly organize the structure of narrating process. Nonetheless, other insignificant narrative markers are deleted or replaced due to redundancy and conflicts with the English norms, as they are concerned with details of a character or inessential background information. With the usage of first person pronouns and the replacement with deixis, the translators manage to narrow the distance between the narrator and the reader. Hence, the Yangs’ translation not only gives an alien sense of the Chinese vernacular story, but also makes the narrative text more concise and flexible for the target reader.},
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