英语毕业论文：AStudyontheCulturalTranslation[Abstract]TheAnalects,asthemostimportantConfucianclassicrecording,whosetranslationhaslongbeenofimmenseimportancetoculturalexchangebetweentheEastandtheWest.SoitismeaningfultostudyonwhichkindofmethodusedintheprocessofculturaltranslationismuchbetterintransmittingChineseculturetowesternsociety,toletforeignerslearnandunderstandtheinnervalueofConfucianism.[KeyWords]culturaltranslation;communicativetranslation;semantictranslation;TheAnalects1.BriefIntroductiontoTheAnalectsLunYu,themostinfluentialandenduringChineseclassic,isalsoknownasTheAnalects,theAnalectsofConfucius,ortheConfucianAnalects,whichshowsitssplendorasearlyas2,400yearsagobetweentheSpringandAutumnandtheWarringStatesperiods.Coveringawidescopeofsubjectsfrompolitics,philosophy,literature,andarttoeducationandmoralcultivation,TheAnalectsistheearliestandmostreliablesourceonthelifeandteachingsofthesage,TheAnalects,isregardedbytheChineseasthebasicscriptureofConfucianism.Compiledbyhisdisciples,TheAnalectsrecordedthesayinganddeedsofthegreatsageandhisdisciples.2.AboutCommunicativeandSemanticTranslationTheoryInordertonarrowthedisparitybetweenliteraltranslationandfreetranslation,PeterNewmarkputforwardtwomodesoftranslation,whichwerenamedascommunicativetranslationandsemantictranslation.Theformercombinestheadvantagesofadaptation,freetranslation,andidiomatictranslation,whilethelattercontainsthemeritsofwordforwordtranslation,literarytranslation,andfaithfultranslation.Accordingtocommunicativetranslationtheory,translationisaprocessofcommunication,whichrequiresthetranslatordohisbesttotransferthesourcelanguagecultureintotargetlanguageculture.Whentransplantingapassageonanotherculturalbackground,greateffortshouldbemadetogetthetargetreaderunderstandandsharethesamethinkingworldoftheoriginalauthor.Generally,acommunicativetranslationislikelytobesmoother,simpler,clearer,moredirect,moreconventional,conformingtoaparticularregisteroflanguage,tendingtoundertranslate,i.e.tousemoregeneric,hold-alltermsind