Words Not in the Story: Paratextual Analysis of Moral Education in a School Edition of <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> in China

Hui, Haifeng; Fan, Lei

doi:10.3366/ircl.2015.0147

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“…The mediating role of paratext has been studied by many scholars (Hui and Fan 2015;Kansu-Yetkiner 2014;Spiessens 2013;Tahir-Gürçağlar 2002;Watts 2000). An example provided by Kansu-Yetkiner ( 2014) is taken from the introduction to the Turkish translation of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.…”

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Recreating the Images of Chan Master Huineng: A Systemic Functional Approach to Translations of the Platform Sutra

Yu¹

2019

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The book applies systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to the comparison of four English translations of the Platform Sutra (1930, 1977, 1998 and 2011) in the field of translation studies. The Platform Sutra is an ancient Chan Buddhist text that records the public sermons and conversations of the Chan master Huineng (638-713). The focus of the book is on the image of Huineng recreated in each translation. The book integrates quantitative and qualitative analyses, adopting corpus linguistic tools such as SysFan, SysConc, and Wmatrix, with its methodology applicable in future studies. The analyses of the four translations are conducted from the perspectives of verbs of saying, personal pronouns, Mood and Modality, multimodality and evaluation, and textual complexity, which are within the ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions of SFL respectively. Both the recreating of images and the lexicogrammatical choices are further interpreted by taking the context of translation (Field, Tenor, Mode) into consideration. The book provides an appropriate way to combine systemic functional linguistics with translation studies, highlighting the relationship between language, culture and translation. It also raises the question concerning the status of translated texts as the basis of scholarly research in the English world.

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Section: Paratext: the Site Of Mediationmentioning

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Recreating the Images of Chan Master Huineng: A Systemic Functional Approach to Translations of the Platform Sutra

Yu¹

2019

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Narrative Theory and Children's Literature

Cadden¹

2022

A Companion to Children's Literature

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Attitude as mediation: Peritextual commentary in the translation of the Platform Sutra

Wu²

2018

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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 Platform Sutra, a religious text, is attributed to the translator’s teacher, whose lectures in the source language served as the basis of the peritextual commentary. By adopting the appraisal framework, the study demonstrates how explicit attitudes, especially judgements, are instilled in the commentary to direct the readers to see the protagonist Huineng as a hero and many other characters as villains. Despite the apparent attribution of the commentary to the translator’s teacher, the translator plays an active role in reorganizing, translating and sometimes modifying the attitudinal expressions from the original lectures. Putting the commentary under the name of the translator’s teacher functions to further enhance the mediating power of the attitude. The specialness of the case study will make it complementary to existing studies on attitude as mediation.

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Words Not in the Story: Paratextual Analysis of Moral Education in a School Edition of Gulliver's Travels in China

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Recreating the Images of Chan Master Huineng: A Systemic Functional Approach to Translations of the Platform Sutra

Recreating the Images of Chan Master Huineng: A Systemic Functional Approach to Translations of the Platform Sutra

Narrative Theory and Children's Literature

Attitude as mediation: Peritextual commentary in the translation of the Platform Sutra

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