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摘要：本文是一篇英语文学论文，本文从共时和历时两个角度对《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》的四个译本进行了描述性翻译研究，以探讨社会文化语境对非裔美国人白话英语翻译的影响。共时研究的主要目的是发现当代译本的相似性，从而概括不同时期黑人英语翻译的主要特点，并研究社会文化语境对翻译的影响。历时研究主要是比较不同时代翻译倾向的差异，研究翻译倾向的变化与社会文化语境的变化之间的联系。

he Two Versions in Translating African-American Vernacular English ..........................23

Chapter Four A Synchronic Study of Two Chinese Versions after the 1980s .........................34

4.1 Introduction of Cheng Shi’s Version and Xu Ruzhi’s Version ......................................34

4.2 A Comparison of the Two Versions in Translating African- American Vernacular English ...............37

Chapter Five A Diachronic Study of Four Selected Versions ................................49

5.1 Comparison and Analysis of Diachronous Translators’ Translation Strategies and Methods .....................49

5.1.1 An Ever-present Tendency of Standardization .................................49

5.1.2 A Tendency of Foreignization After 1980 ...............................50

Chapter Five A Diachronic Study of Four Selected Versions

5.1 Comparison and Analysis of Diachronous Translators’ Translation Strategies and Methods

5.1.1 An Ever-present Tendency of Standardization

As is discussed in the second chapter, both Zhang Wanli and Zhang Yousong translated all African-American Vernacular English speeches in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn into standard Chinese colloquial language. The deviations between Black English and Standard English that has been deliberately made by Mark Twain in the original to accomplish foregrounding were abandoned by both translators and no sign of recreation or imitation of such deviations can be found in their versions. And hence, the contributions, which would have been made by the foregrounding achieved by those deviations, to characterizations of black slaves, especially Lady Watson’s Old Jim, is lost.

Two versions published in the 1950s demonstrated that both Zhang Wanli and Zhang Yousong chose to conform to the norms of the target language and produced what would be called acceptable translations by Gideon Toury. Both translators in the 1950s standardized the non-standard Black English in the original in the process of translation.

This tendency of standardization while processing African-American Vernacular English discourses in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn showed up as well in the time after 1980. Xu Ruzhi translated a part of the Black English speeches in the original into standard Chinese oral language in his version. Xu showed a wavering attitude when making a choice between the norms of the source text and those of the target language, which means that a portion of his translation of African-American Vernacular English w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。