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Title: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRANSLATIONS OF CULTURALLY SPECIFIC WORDS FROM THE ANALECTS USING CHESTERMAN’S TRANSLATION ETHICS
Authors: Huiling Li
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Huiling Li School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
MLA 8 Li, Huiling. "A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRANSLATIONS OF CULTURALLY SPECIFIC WORDS FROM THE ANALECTS USING CHESTERMAN’S TRANSLATION ETHICS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 8, no. 7, July 2023, pp. 1895-1906, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i07.018. Accessed July 2023. APA 6 Li, H. (2023, July). A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRANSLATIONS OF CULTURALLY SPECIFIC WORDS FROM THE ANALECTS USING CHESTERMAN’S TRANSLATION ETHICS. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 8(7), 1895-1906. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i07.018 Chicago Li, Huiling. "A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRANSLATIONS OF CULTURALLY SPECIFIC WORDS FROM THE ANALECTS USING CHESTERMAN’S TRANSLATION ETHICS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 8, no. 7 (July 2023), 1895-1906. Accessed July, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i07.018.
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ABSTRACT: The Analects, one of the masterpieces of ancient Chinese philosophy, consists of twenty chapters, recording the words of Confucius and his students. As an important part of ancient Chinese philosophy, the foreign translation of the Analects has been of positive significance to the dissemination of China’s excellent traditional culture. So far, there have been several English translations of the Analects and this study focuses on the translations of the famous English sinologist James Legge and the well-known Chinese master Ku Hung-ming. Under the guidance of Chesterman’s translation ethics, a detailed comparison is made on the translation of their culturally specific words. Although James Legge translated the Analects for missionary purposes, culturally specific words were mostly adopted by literal translation and his translation rarely contained religious words in the interests of fairness, which also tended to follow Chesterman’s ethics of representation. Instead, Ku Hung-ming’s translation was to enhance Westerners’ understanding of Chinese civilization, so he mostly used domestication and tended to follow ethics of service and communication. Therefore, we can make use of translation ethics to analyze the translation strategies of culturally specific words in order to effectively promote the international dissemination of English translations of traditional Chinese texts.

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