杨宪益夫妇英译《朝花夕拾》研究--基于诺德的功能翻译视角的中期报告ResearchontheTranslationofYangXianyiandGladysYang’s“SixChaptersofaFloatingLife”--BasedonNord’sFunctionalTranslationPerspectiveAbstract:YangXianyiandGladysYang’stranslationof“SixChaptersofaFloatingLife”isaclassicofChinese-Englishtranslation.ThisresearchaimstoanalyzetheirtranslationfromtheperspectiveofNord’sfunctionaltranslationtheory.Bycomparingthesourcetextandtargettext,thisstudycoversbothlinguisticandculturaltransferandexploreshowthetranslatorsachievedtheircommunicativegoals.Theresultsshowthattheirtranslationstrategywasdominatedbyfunction,aimingtocommunicatetheoriginalcontentandsocio-culturalcontexttothetargetreaders.ThisstudyprovidesavaluablereferencefortranslatingChineseliteraturefromafunctionalperspective.Keywords:YangXianyiandGladysYang,“SixChaptersofaFloatingLife”,translation,functionaltheory,communicativegoal.Introduction:AsaclassicofChineseliterature,“SixChaptersofaFloatingLife”hasbeenwidelytranslatedintomanylanguages.Amongthem,YangXianyiandGladysYang’stranslationinEnglishisoneofthemostfamousandpopularones.TheirtranslationhasbeenpraisedasamasterpiecethatperfectlycapturestheessenceoftheoriginaltextanduniquelyrepresentsthebeautyofChineseliterature.ThisresearchaimstoanalyzetheirtranslationfromtheperspectiveofNord’sfunctionaltranslationtheory.Nord’sfunctionaltheoryemphasizestheimportanceofachievingcommunicativegoalsintranslationandproposesamethodologyforanalyzingtranslationstrategies.Byadoptingthistheory,thisstudywillexplorehowthetranslatorsapproachedthetranslation,especiallyintermsofculturaltransfer.Methodology:ThemethodologyofthisresearchismainlybasedonNord’sfunctionaltranslationtheory,whichprovidesatheoreticalframeworkforanalyzingtranslationstrategies.Norddividestranslationintotwostages:linguistictransferandculturaltransfer.Linguistictransferreferstothetransferoflinguisticfeaturesbetweenthesourceandthetargettexts,whileculturaltransferreferstothetransferofculturalfeaturesbetweenthetwotexts.Inthisstudy,bothstageswillbeta