VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, IIANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES PHAM TITU GIANG A STUDY ON THE VIETNAMESE-ENGLISH TRANSLATION STRATEGLES LN THE SERIES OF BILINGUAL HANDBOOKS “VIETNAMESE CULTURE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS" PUBLISHED BY THE THE GIO] PUBLISHER Nghiên cứu phương pháp dịch Việt— Ảnh trong b. ách song ngũ “Những câu hỏi thường gặp về văn hóa Việt Nam” do Nhà xuất bản Thể Giới ấn hành MLA. MINOR PROGRAMME TIIESIS Ficld: English linguistics Code: 602215 TTanơi - 2010 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, IIANOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES PITAM TIIU GIANG A STUDY ON THE VIETNAMESE-ENGLISH TRANSLATION STRATEGIES IN THE SERIES OF BILINGUAL HANDBOOKS “VIETNAMESE CULTURE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS" PUBLISHED BY THE THE G10] PUBLISHER Nghiên cứu phương pháp dịch Việt — Anh trong bộ sách song ngữ “Những câu hỏi thường gặp về văn hóa Việt Nam” do Nhà xuất bản Thể Giới ấn hành M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Field: English linguistics Code: 602215 Supervisor: Dr.
Tran Xuan Diép Tlanai - 2010 TABLES OF CONTENTS: Page Acknowledgement Abstract Table of contents iii List of abbreviations Part 1 - Intraduction Rationale Aims of the study " Soups of the study re Methodology of the study Ta how Organization of the study Part II - Development Chapter 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ¬ aAaaa 1. Definitions of translation 1. Translation methods and strategies 1. Forcign language translation 1.4, Translation of cultural texts Chapter 2: VIETNAMESE-ENGLISH TRANSLATION STRATEGIES USED IN THE BILINGUAL HANDBOOKS 2.
Modified literal translation 2. Changes in grammar 2.1, Changes in the order of word groups 2.2, Changes of grammatical word class 2.4, Sentences split or merged 11 4.2, Methods Data carpus: Cultural scholar Huu Ngoc and American writer Lady Borton work together to bring us the series of bilingual handbooks on Vietnamese culture. ‘The set of books provide the readers with basic knowledge of the Vietnamese culture such as the Tel holiday, water puppetry, Hue cuisine and so on, The pocket-sized books are designed for readers of different backgrounds. Firstly, the books are a valuable reference for foreigners who are interested in the Vietnamese culture, The books also offer nseful practice for English native speakers who want to study Vietnamese.
Thirdly, towist guides and officials of foreign affairs benefit a great deal from the books in their business, Besides, the books are useftl for English tcachors and students with inlctesting contenls and compurativaty simple language The three books, “Popular Theatre”, “Spring Festivals in Northem Viet Nam” and “Wedding customs”, were chosen with careful thoughts, Chéo, an authentically ‘Vietnamese theatre form, festival and wedding customs are the themes which may involve amany culture-specific terms, conceptions, idioms or allusions which pose considcrabls challenges for the transtators. Therefore, the researcher would discover more helpful strategies lo deal with cullure-retated problems which remain very controversial in the arga of transtation, ‘the "Popular ‘Theatre” covering 99 pages tells stories about chéo with six main parts: background, popular plays, artists, music, chéo villages, and future development, The *Wadding Customs" with 83 pages discusses different customs, from the pas! to present, from the North to the South and some emerging issues i modem wedding sites. The thickest handbook "Spring l'estivals in Norther Viét Nam" with 133 pages describes imany farnaus spring festivals, som of which belong to minority groups such as Tay and “Thai peoples. Over 300 sentence pairs were collected from the three selected handbooks to examine how and why the strategies are used to produce comprehensible and acceptable targct language texts.
Data analysis: A mechanical listing of noteworthy and typical examples of translations in the books which, logether, cover a wide range of strategies is done firs. The author docs nol solely depend on the methods and strategies already studied by many researchers presented in the literature. She tries to seek more specific techniques employed by the translators and 11 4.2, Methods Data carpus: Cultural scholar Huu Ngoc and American writer Lady Borton work together to bring us the series of bilingual handbooks on Vietnamese culture. ‘The set of books provide the readers with basic knowledge of the Vietnamese culture such as the Tel holiday, water puppetry, Hue cuisine and so on, The pocket-sized books are designed for readers of different backgrounds.
Firstly, the books are a valuable reference for foreigners who are interested in the Vietnamese culture, The books also offer nseful practice for English native speakers who want to study Vietnamese. Thirdly, towist guides and officials of foreign affairs benefit a great deal from the books in their business, Besides, the books are useftl for English tcachors and students with inlctesting contenls and compurativaty simple language The three books, “Popular Theatre”, “Spring Festivals in Northem Viet Nam” and “Wedding customs”, were chosen with careful thoughts, Chéo, an authentically ‘Vietnamese theatre form, festival and wedding customs are the themes which may involve amany culture-specific terms, conceptions, idioms or allusions which pose considcrabls challenges for the transtators. Therefore, the researcher would discover more helpful strategies lo deal with cullure-retated problems which remain very controversial in the arga of transtation, ‘the "Popular ‘Theatre” covering 99 pages tells stories about chéo with six main parts: background, popular plays, artists, music, chéo villages, and future development, The *Wadding Customs" with 83 pages discusses different customs, from the pas! to present, from the North to the South and some emerging issues i modem wedding sites. The thickest handbook "Spring l'estivals in Norther Viét Nam" with 133 pages describes imany farnaus spring festivals, som of which belong to minority groups such as Tay and “Thai peoples.
Over 300 sentence pairs were collected from the three selected handbooks to examine how and why the strategies are used to produce comprehensible and acceptable targct language texts. Data analysis: A mechanical listing of noteworthy and typical examples of translations in the books which, logether, cover a wide range of strategies is done firs. The author docs nol solely depend on the methods and strategies already studied by many researchers presented in the literature. She tries to seek more specific techniques employed by the translators and 11 4.2, Methods Data carpus: Cultural scholar Huu Ngoc and American writer Lady Borton work together to bring us the series of bilingual handbooks on Vietnamese culture.
‘The set of books provide the readers with basic knowledge of the Vietnamese culture such as the Tel holiday, water puppetry, Hue cuisine and so on, The pocket-sized books are designed for readers of different backgrounds. Firstly, the books are a valuable reference for foreigners who are interested in the Vietnamese culture, The books also offer nseful practice for English native speakers who want to study Vietnamese. Thirdly, towist guides and officials of foreign affairs benefit a great deal from the books in their business, Besides, the books are useftl for English tcachors and students with inlctesting contenls and compurativaty simple language The three books, “Popular Theatre”, “Spring Festivals in Northem Viet Nam” and “Wedding customs”, were chosen with careful thoughts, Chéo, an authentically ‘Vietnamese theatre form, festival and wedding customs are the themes which may involve amany culture-specific terms, conceptions, idioms or allusions which pose considcrabls challenges for the transtators. Therefore, the researcher would discover more helpful strategies lo deal with cullure-retated problems which remain very controversial in the arga of transtation, ‘the "Popular ‘Theatre” covering 99 pages tells stories about chéo with six main parts: background, popular plays, artists, music, chéo villages, and future development, The *Wadding Customs" with 83 pages discusses different customs, from the pas! to present, from the North to the South and some emerging issues i modem wedding sites.
The thickest handbook "Spring l'estivals in Norther Viét Nam" with 133 pages describes imany farnaus spring festivals, som of which belong to minority groups such as Tay and “Thai peoples. Over 300 sentence pairs were collected from the three selected handbooks to examine how and why the strategies are used to produce comprehensible and acceptable targct language texts. Data analysis: A mechanical listing of noteworthy and typical examples of translations in the books which, logether, cover a wide range of strategies is done firs. The author docs nol solely depend on the methods and strategies already studied by many researchers presented in the literature.
She tries to seek more specific techniques employed by the translators and 11 4.2, Methods Data carpus: Cultural scholar Huu Ngoc and American writer Lady Borton work together to bring us the series of bilingual handbooks on Vietnamese culture. ‘The set of books provide the readers with basic knowledge of the Vietnamese culture such as the Tel holiday, water puppetry, Hue cuisine and so on, The pocket-sized books are designed for readers of different backgrounds. Firstly, the books are a valuable reference for foreigners who are interested in the Vietnamese culture, The books also offer nseful practice for English native speakers who want to study Vietnamese. Thirdly, towist guides and officials of foreign affairs benefit a great deal from the books in their business, Besides, the books are useftl for English tcachors and students with inlctesting contenls and compurativaty simple language The three books, “Popular Theatre”, “Spring Festivals in Northem Viet Nam” and “Wedding customs”, were chosen with careful thoughts, Chéo, an authentically ‘Vietnamese theatre form, festival and wedding customs are the themes which may involve amany culture-specific terms, conceptions, idioms or allusions which pose considcrabls challenges for the transtators.
Therefore, the researcher would discover more helpful strategies lo deal with cullure-retated problems which remain very controversial in the arga of transtation, ‘the "Popular ‘Theatre” covering 99 pages tells stories about chéo with six main parts: background, popular plays, artists, music, chéo villages, and future development, The *Wadding Customs" with 83 pages discusses different customs, from the pas! to present, from the North to the South and some emerging issues i modem wedding sites. The thickest handbook "Spring l'estivals in Norther Viét Nam" with 133 pages describes imany farnaus spring festivals, som of which belong to minority groups such as Tay and “Thai peoples. Over 300 sentence pairs were collected from the three selected handbooks to examine how and why the strategies are used to produce comprehensible and acceptable targct language texts. Data analysis: A mechanical listing of noteworthy and typical examples of translations in the books which, logether, cover a wide range of strategies is done firs.
The author docs nol solely depend on the methods and strategies already studied by many researchers presented in the literature. She tries to seek more specific techniques employed by the translators and 13 Chapter Hf is the main part of the study. ‘This chapter providos discnssion on the use of translation strategies in the thive scl ted books in terms of modified literal translation, changes in grammar, choice of vocabulary. The author is particularly interested in translations of culture-bound terms, names and titles, This part is ended with some evaluations on the meaning transfer inchiding expressive richness and writing slyte in the target language.
Part iif is Conclusion which recapitulates the main ideas and findings of the study, draws oul. some important dmnplications for Vietarnc English tunslators, proscnis limitations of the study and lastly, suggests some ideas for further research, 13 Chapter Hf is the main part of the study. ‘This chapter providos discnssion on the use of translation strategies in the thive scl ted books in terms of modified literal translation, changes in grammar, choice of vocabulary. The author is particularly interested in translations of culture-bound terms, names and titles, This part is ended with some evaluations on the meaning transfer inchiding expressive richness and writing slyte in the target language.
Part iif is Conclusion which recapitulates the main ideas and findings of the study, draws oul. some important dmnplications for Vietarnc English tunslators, proscnis limitations of the study and lastly, suggests some ideas for further research, 13 Chapter Hf is the main part of the study.