英语电影片名的翻译论文开题报告

可写 Introduction 或 Background 介绍写论文的目的 或 研究的目标

本科毕业论文任务书和开题报告

一、任务书

中文题目: 浅谈英文电影片名的误译及对策

英文题目: A Brief Analysis of Mistranslation of Titles for English Films and Countermeasures

题目来源 □教师科研项目 □教师指定 √学生自拟 □其他

基本任务与要求 论文主题是英文电影片名的误译以及对误译提出的对策，研究方向是翻译方向。

要求学生通过对英文电影片名特点、作用的分析，力图结合英文电影片名的翻译原则以及翻译方法，来研究英文电影片名的误译及对策。论文通过探讨引起误译的原因，具体以被误译的英文电影片名来讨论和研究误译的现象和对策。并综合国内外学者的研究提出英文电影片名翻译的原则和翻译方法，以减少误译的发生。

严格规范论文格式，严禁抄袭

拟解决主要问题及预期成果 论文从英文电影片名的误译着手，研究英文电影片名的特点和功能，分析引起误译的原因，研究英文电影片名的翻译原则和方法，已到达减少英文电影片名误译和提升英文电影片名翻译水平的目的。

在规定时间内完成字数在3到5字以内的关于从翻译角度探讨英文电影片名误译与对策的论文。

阶段性主要工作的起止时间 1.准备工作 起 6.论文撰写 月起

2.选题 7.完成初稿

3.资料收集 8.修改、定稿

4.开题报告 9.答辩 月下旬

5.论文大纲 1.其他工作 月

学生完成论文最终时间： 20151 年 4 月 26 日

学生接受任务时间： 2015 年 15 月 16 日 学生签名：

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二、开题报告

中文题目 浅谈英文电影片名的误译及对策

英文题目 A Brief Analysis of Mistranslation of Titles for English Films and Countermeasures

开题报告内容

1.选题背景(含国内外相关研究综述及评价)与意义。

对于电影片名的误译及对策的课题，国内外学者都有很多研究，国内学者付有龙、冯小霞、刘显才等对英文电影片名的翻译及误译都有深入研究;国外学者也就这一方向有相关研究，如 ， 和 等的研究较为深入，他们关于英文电影名称的特点与功能﹑电影名称的误译以及翻译方法的研究具有代表性。

国内学者付有龙就电影片名的误译方面做了相关研究，他在电影评价上发表的《电影片名误译及其翻译方法》得出电影片名的误译是由多方面因素引起的，包括：对电影文化内涵缺乏了解，过度追求商业利润，过分追求系列模式化等。

国外学者 的Talking about the movie name translation对电影片名翻译的原则和方法提供了更好的论证，他认为电影片名的翻译应该遵循翻译的原则，而且不同类型的电影片名应该用适合的翻译方法来翻译，这样才可以更好地避免误译的发生。

论文具有一定的学术性、现实性、前沿性、针对性或新颖性;与社会、生活相结合，论文研究的英文电影片名的误译现象越来越受到学术界重视，与人们生活息息相关。根据国内外学者的研究，论文分析了英文电影片名的特征和功能，为研究英文电影片名的翻译提供更好的基础，透析英文电影片名的误译现象和误译原因，总结英文电影片名翻译的原则和适合不同英文电影片名翻译的翻译方法。该论文的研究有利于减少误译引起的麻烦，提高英文电影片名的翻译水平，从而更好地减少文化隔阂，有利于电影业的更好发展。

2. 选题研究的方法与主要内容。

在收集资料，阅读相关文献的基础上，与指导教师讨论，共同确定选题，列出论文提纲，并拟采用例证法，分析法，比较法，推导论述法等方法进行论文撰写。

论文主要研究英文电影片名的'误译以及对误译提出的对策，通过综合归纳英文电影片名的特点、作用，结合英文电影片名的翻译原则以及翻译方法，以Rain Man， Bad Company，American Beauty， Original Sin等多部外国电影片名的翻译为实例，试图从电影片名翻译错误的视角，就英文电影片名的误译以及对策这一论题进行深入探讨，旨在达成减少英文电影片名的误译以及减少误译带来的麻烦，从而更好地发挥电影片名的作用以及使外国电影更好地被中国人接受和认可的目的。

3. 研究条件及可能存在的问题。

通过专业学习，具备基本英语语言技能和专业知识，拥有所选课题需要的部分资料和相关理论书籍，校图书馆和网络有丰富的资料可查询。同时，有指导教师的指导和帮助，能够顺利完成论文写作。

对于论文，可能存在的问题有相关文献和著作收集不足;理论理解、分析不够深刻、透彻;理论研究较为肤浅;理论联系实际不够;缺乏充分、全面的实践证明等问题，但是论文将尽量减少类似问题发生，尽量完善各方面。

参考文献：

Andrew， Lynn. Happreciating Cinema. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press， 26.

Patrick ， Cattrysse. Talking about the movie name translation. New York: Random House Inc.， 28.

Newmark， Peter. A Textbook of Translation. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press， 2015.

刘显才. 英文电影片名翻译的跨文化解读. 辽宁：长春电影文学出版社， 29.

付有龙. 电影片名误译及其翻译方法. 电影评价， 29， 9: 54-56.

4.拟解决的主要问题和预期效果。

论文主要试图研究英语电影片名的误译，通过对具体英语电影片名翻译的分析研究，从英文电影片名的特点、作用等方面，分析英语电影片名误译的影响和正确翻译的意义，从而探究避免英语电影片名误译的相关策略和方法，最终按照学士学位毕业论文的要求，完成3到5词左右的论文，并顺利通过答辩。

计划起止时间 完成主要任务

2015年1月13日——2015年1月2日 论文准备工作

2015年1月3日——2015年15月3日 论文选题和收集资料

2015年12月1日——2015年12月2日 开题报告、任务书和论文提纲填写

2015年1月1日——2015年3月15日 完成论文初稿

2015年3月2日——2015年4月26日 修改论文并定稿

2015年5月下旬 ——2015年6月 论文答辩及其他工作

指导教师审核意见 论文主要研究英语电影片名的误译及对策，学生在写作过程中应认真查阅相关资料，运用例证法，分析法，比较法，推导论述法等方式深入探讨英语电影片名的误译，并提出对策。该论文写作应严格按照进度计划进行，论文格式应该完全符合论文写作规范，并在规定时间内完成论文、顺利通过答辩。

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英语翻译论文直接找北京译顶科技就行了啊，省时省力，对接也方便。

英语专业翻译方向论文开题报告范文

以下是由我整理的.英语专业翻译方向论文的开题报告范文，供大家参考!

How to Deal with Ellipsis in English-Chinese Translation

I. Purpose and Significance

With the development of globalization, the world’s political, economic and cultural communications are becoming increasingly frequent. Therefore, the role of translation cannot be ignored. However, the differences between English and Chinese cultures that are reflected in the two languages pose considerable difficulty.

It is acknowledged that when doing translation one can not translate word for word, or sentence by sentence. Therefore, we must use some translation strategies such as amplification, ellipsis, conversion and so on. Ellipsis as one of the basic translation methods plays an essential role in English-Chinese rendition. Translators apply it in order to make their versions more coherent and understandable.

According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary, ellipsis means leaving out a word or words from a sentence deliberately, when the meaning can be understood without them. Ellipsis in translation does not mean cutting some content from the original articles. What could be omitted are words that are useless in translated works or else they will make the versions redundant or disobey the manner of expression in another language.

Some words and phrases are useless in Chinese but necessary in English. Articles in English are the most significant phenomenon from this aspect. They are very important in English, but we can hardly see any reflection of this part in Chinese. Ellipsis is designed on the basis of faithfulness to the original text, making it more fluent, smooth, concise, thus conforming to idiomatic Chinese. The paper will explore ellipsis in English-Chinese translation from five aspects, which are ellipses of pronouns, conjunctions, articles, prepositions, modifications, so as to achieve smoother and clearer communications among China and English-speaking countries.

II. Literature Review

Long before, some people began to learn other countries’ languages to understand others cultures. In China, Xuanzang was the first translator who not only translated the Sanskrit sutras into Chinese, but introduced the first Chinese writings to foreign countries, making foreigners understand China’s ancient culture. Meanwhile, he was the first to translate Lao Tse's works into Sanskrit. Indian scholars had a high opinion of Xuanzang, "In China, there is no such great translator, and also in the human cultural history, we can only say that Xuanzang is the first great translator."(Ye Lang, 2008) We can say that it was Xuanzang who motivated people to know the different parts of the world, their cultures and the peoples who live there. Then, some big countries such as America, China, and so on became a melting pot.(Gu Zhengkun, 2000) People have imperceptibly spent thousands of years in knowing each other.

With China’s entry into WTO and its open-up policy, cross-cultural exchanges are increasingly frequent between this country and others. A lot of foreign tourists come to visit China. While traveling, these foreigners are not satisfied with the translations of the scenic spots. Sometimes, they even feel confused. A lot of problems exist in the translation, such as misuse of words, poor expression of meaning and so on. All of these poor translations do harm to our country’s international image, and cause a lot of inconveniences for the foreign visitors. (Ma Zuyi, 2000). I am fond of tourism and being a free tourist like the others who are good at enjoying their wonderful lives. The love of tourism makes me feel the need to improve the translation. But every time when I have a trip, many unsuitable translations of the names of those scenic spots will embarrass me. Tourism is part of intercultural communication, so proper translation of the scenic spots become more and more important to our country.

Communication plays a significant role in the globalized society. In order to know each other better, people from all over the world have tried a verity of ways. Of course, translation is one of them. All translators have done their best to make the translated works more consistent with the needs of people.(Gu Jinming, 1997) From my perspective, they really have done a great job. And I want to retrospect the cause of their development. After a thorough evaluation, I choose a branch of translation—ellipsis in translation from English to Chinese, then I did the following jobs.

I put all my researches and other stuffs together, and then I found that it is a common case in English and Chinese which draws much academic interest. In 1976, Halliday and Hsan classified ellipsis into nominal, verbal and clausal ellipsis. This classification exerts great influence in academic circle. Thereafter, ellipsis in Chinese and English has been studied according to this theory, which is based on different layers of structure. This kind of study underlines differentiations and similarities of ellipsis in Chinese and English.

Another famous theory to explain ellipsis is Economy Principle. Economy Principle was put forward by Chomsky (1991,1993, and 1995) in his Generate Crammer. It maintains that language and linguistic study follow Economy Principle, which means using the least effort to express the most information. This principle just coincides with ellipsis in function.

In this thesis, I think that brevity is the most obvious and common function of ellipsis, especially in daily language. And in both English and Chinese, people advocate brevity. Shakespeare once remarked, “brevity is the soul of wit”, and in Chinese there are numerous idioms like “yan jian yi gai” (meaning compendious). However, apart from the function of brevity, ellipsis embodies other functions which are also pretty common in the two languages but less noticed.(Hua Xianfa,2002)These functions distribute in both English and Chinese unevenly and represent great colorfulness of language. Exploring other functions of ellipsis and searching for functional recreation in translation will be of much benefit to both English to Chinese and Chinese to English translation.

I found that when Chinese authors try to analyse ellipsis in English to Chinese translation, they always initially put articles in the list. They consider that it is a common phenomenon that Chinese always leave out personal articles. While it is obviously different in English that almost every sentence has a subject, we can see articles fluently. That is because when we translate from English to Chinese, personal articles can be omitted, even though sometimes it may appear once, it can also be omitted if necessary. Furthermore, if the objects can be seen obviously, personal articles should also be omitted. However, it never happens in English. From this point, it is not only allowable but also necessary when we translate personal articles which are objects in sentences into Chinese.

In my point of view, the development of society has in some way has deliberately promoted the way of people’s thinking, translation system has become more and more perfect, people from all over the world have enjoyed the convenience. However, we can not neglect that there are still some problems in this field in China, and we have less influential Chinese translators in the world. Therefore, we still have a long way to go in translation.

III. Feasibility Analysis

This academic paper is a feasible project and the reasons are as follows:

have great interests in the way of English-Chinese translation.

have already studied translation methods and have been familiar with the functions and applications of ellipsis .

have collected enough references both Chinese and Western on ellipsis in

translation and do a scrupulous study of the relationship between them.

have a carefully planned schedule and have worked out a detailed outline of this thesis.

have acquainted myself with the correct format, a clear and complete structure required by the academic paper, and my adequate English competence will enable me to write in fluent and precise English.

instructor is a qualified translator who is familiar with the subject I havechosen.

IV. Problems of the research and solutions

1. Problems

Despite the references I have collected and read, a thorough study of ellipsis in English-Chinese translation from the point of freely using still needs far more. What’s more, owing to the limited ways of getting references in Xinjiang, I will have to make full use of my present resources. Also, this is the first time I have ever written such a serious academic paper. I am therefore a learner and lack the needed training and experience.

2. Solutions

(1) I shall make full use of my already acquired references which come from books, magazines and the Internet as well.

(2) I shall value my own original thoughts and mainly rely on detailed analysis that I have read from the books which have closely idea with my purpose.

(3) When I have difficulties in the writing process, I shall consult my instructor and seek for help.

V. Necessary conditions

1. Our university and school of foreign languages have provided the basic study and research conditions and facilities, including books and journals in the library and reading rooms.

2. The Internet is another source of information and on the campus we have easy access to the Internet.

3. I have been assigned an instructor to guide me through the whole process of planning and writing.

VI. Outline

I. Introduction

A. A Brief Introduction of Ellipsis in Translation

B. What Should We Pay Attention to When Dealing with Ellipsis

C. The Reason Why Ellipsis Is So Widely Used in Translation

1. Chinese Expressions Are Much Briefer Than That of English

2. English Grammar Is Wee-Knit and Complete in Sentence Structure

II. The Principles of Ellipsis

A. Omitted Words Must Be Useless And Unnecessary in the Translated Works

B. The Meaning of the Omitted Words Is Implied in the Test

C. Omitted Words Which Are Self-Evident

Ш. The Functions and Applications of Ellipsis

A. The Coherence of the Meaning of Expression

B. The Coincidence of the Manner of Expression

1. Ellipsis of Articles

a. Ellipsis of Definite Articles

b. Ellipsis of Indefinite Articles

2. Ellipsis of Prepositions

3. Ellipsis of Pronouns

a. Ellipsis of Personal and Impersonal Pronouns

b. Ellipsis of Indefinite Pronouns

c. Ellipsis of Relative Pronouns

4. Ellipsis of Conjunctions

a. Ellipsis of Coordinating Conjunctions

b. Ellipsis of Subordinate Conjunctions

5. Ellipsis of Rhetoric

a. Ellipsis of Repeated Words

b. Ellipsis of Synonyms