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Translation Strategies of Fuzzy Language—Taking Red Sorghum and Its Translation as Examples
SHAO Simin, ZHANG Shiqian
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2022.03.004
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Fuzzy language is commonly seen in literary works as well as in natural language, the translation strategies of which become a core index to evaluate the quality of a literary translation. The present study explores the translation strategies of fuzzy language in Red Sorghum by classifying the use of fuzzy language in this work at different levels and analyzing their translation strategies, in an attempt to provide suggestions for the literary translation of fuzzy language.
fuzzy language, literary translation, translation strategy, Red Sorghum
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