After analysed its construction and its social background, we will come the speech itself based on Halliday's theory of the interpersonal function. Let's see the following example: Eg4 Source language:Fourscore and seven ago our father brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.[9] Target language1: 87年前我们的祖先在这片大陆上创立了一个孕育于自由新国家,并且为一个理论献身,那就是所有人类生下来都是平等的。[11] Target language2: 八十七年前,我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家,它孕育于自由之中,奉行一切人生来平等的原则。[14] At the beginning of this address, Lincoln has recollecting the history about how does this country founded and stress the national spirit that all men are created equal, so he didn't used the words “eighty seven years ago”
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And we mentioned that the interpersonal function was to make communication more easily and more efficient. In T1 “that field ” and “that nation” was translated into “那个战场”“那个国家”,it's obviously not appropriate. It has produce a sense of distance between the speaker and the audiences, so the Translation in T3 would be more suitable.As for T2 although there use several four-character phrase such as “为国捐躯” and so on, which convey a strong feeling to honor the dead people, but in some case it was overstate, so it's not so good to translated it in this way, just needs to select the suitable …show more content…
Nevertheless,if translation choose the original voice, it's hard to achieve such effect and the translation will be "我们曾从事于一场伟大的内战" and "我们曾在这场战争中的一个伟大的战场上集会" which totally different from what Lincoln wants to tell people, more important it's hard for Chinese people to understand the implications of this speech and the achievement of interpersonal function will be
And we mentioned that the interpersonal function was to make communication more easily and more efficient. In T1 “that field ” and “that nation” was translated into “那个战场”“那个国家”,it's obviously not appropriate. It has produce a sense of distance between the speaker and the audiences, so the Translation in T3 would be more suitable.As for T2 although there use several four-character phrase such as “为国捐躯” and so on, which convey a strong feeling to honor the dead people, but in some case it was overstate, so it's not so good to translated it in this way, just needs to select the suitable …show more content…
Nevertheless,if translation choose the original voice, it's hard to achieve such effect and the translation will be "我们曾从事于一场伟大的内战" and "我们曾在这场战争中的一个伟大的战场上集会" which totally different from what Lincoln wants to tell people, more important it's hard for Chinese people to understand the implications of this speech and the achievement of interpersonal function will be