A Study of Pragmatic Translation Strategies for Quanzhou Nanyin Libretto Based on A Self-built Corpus
Based on the self-built trilingual(ancient Minnanese,modern Chinese,and English)parallel corpus of Quanzhou Nanyin musical performing art,this paper examines the translation of Quanzhou Nany-in libretto from the perspective of pragmatics.The paper discusses the pragmatic principles and strategies for translating Quanzhou Nanyin libretto,proposes pragmatic translation principles such as pragmal inguis-tic equivalence and sociopragmatic equivalence during the translation process,and analyzes the applica-tion and effectiveness of translation strategies like literal translation,free translation,amplification,omis-sion,transliteration or literal translation plus annotation through case studies.
Quanzhou Nanyin librettopragmatic translationself-built corpus