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Abstract:The concept of schema derives from cognitive psychology. Schema theory has been widely applied to the study of reading comprehension by linguists and foreign language teachers and it is increasingly used in translation study. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is well-known all over the world for its polished linguistic form and vivid characters. Particularly the humorous language makes the events and the characters lifelike; pungent criticism and clever dialogue show the author's ingenuity.
    This paper attempts to approach from a completely different angle how the translator transmigrate the humorous language of Pride and Prejudice into Chinese. Applied in my translation study are some basic prepositions of schema theory on the cognitive psychology. Two Chinese versions of Pride and Prejudice are selected for comparing and analyzing.
    The thesis explores the issue of humorous language translation in the light of schema theory. In the process of translation, the translator subconsciously applies some methods to express the writer's humor. They are: 1) prototype matching; 2) template matching; 3) bottom-up process; 4) top-down process. All the samples are collected in advance from the two Chinese versions of Pride and Prejudice.
    The thesis summarizes its research results from three aspects. First, within the framework of schema theory, humorous language translation is also a communicative activity involving three texts (original text, the schema text and the translated text) and three participants  (the original writer, the translator and the target readers).  The translator's primary concern is to adopt proper translation strategies to convey to the target readers the optimal renderings. Second, in the process of translation, the translator subconsciously uses his own schema knowledge and derives the effective expressions which are matched with original text. Third, according to his own schema knowledge, the translator should trigger the target readers' schema knowledge.  He aims  to communicate the author's intention to the target readers so that they can appreciate the humor in the same manner as the source readers did.
    This study bears theoretical significance in that it tests the validity of schema theory in the field of humorous language translation through comparative analysis of the two Chinese versions. In terms of practical significance, it offers to the translator several schematic strategies for achieving equivalence of the translated version and the original version.
Key words: schema theory; humor; prototype matching; template matching; bottom-up process; top-down process
摘要:图式(schema)是认知心理学的术语，最早由康德提出。许多语言学家和国外的教育家已经将图式理论广泛的运用到阅读研究中去，Ifu对图式理论在翻译中的运用却少有研究。奥斯丁的《傲慢与偏见》历来就以其优美的语言形式，鲜活的人物形象闻名十世。尤其是作者幽默的语言风格把事件和人物刻画的惟妙惟肖，略带尖刻的评价和巧妙的对白更是独具匠心。本文在认知语言学的基础上，将Ix}式理论对人的认知行为和心理的一些基础性解释引入到翻译研究中来，选取《傲慢与偏见》的两个中译本作为比较分析的对象，尝试探讨小说的幽默语言翻译问题。
     本文运用图式理论来研究翻译问题。在翻译过程中，译者采用认知心理学中几种常用的运用图式表达的方法:1.运用原型匹配;2.运用模版匹配;3.运用“自上Ifu下”搜索法;4.运用“自下Ifu上”搜索法，来翻译原文作者的幽默语言。所有例句都从《傲慢与偏见》的两个中译本中收集。
     研究结果表明:1)在图式理论的框架内，幽默语言翻译也是一种交际活动，涉及二个文本(原文文本，译者的图式文本和译本)，二个交际者(原文作者，译者和译文读者)，译者的任务是采用适当的翻译策略把最佳译文转达给译文读者;2)译者在翻译过程中下意识的运用了自己的Ix}式知识，派生出与原文相匹配的有效表达;3)译者在翻译过程中运用自身的Ix}式知识传达原文作者的意Ixl，激活目的语读者的图式知识，使得译文读者感受到和原文读者相同的幽默效果。
     本文在理论和实践方面具有一定意义，从理论上说，本文系统地使用图式理论比较分析了两个译本，测试了图式理论在幽默本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。