ON THE CONTEXTUAL ADAPTATION FEATURE IN CHINESE TRANSLATION OF RUSSIAN AND SOVIET LITERATURE DURING THE ANTI-JAPANESE WAR

Abstract

Translation activities during the Anti-Japanese War were done in particular contexts, greatly influenced by the social and historical background at that time. Combining the quantitative and qualitative research, this article deeply investigates the contextual adaptation rules in Chinese translation of wartime Russian and Soviet Literature based on Russian-Chinese parallel corpus. It analyses the ordinary people vernacular-focused variation mechanism of intra-linguistic context, the reconstruction mechanism of situational context with the great tension of Anti-Japanese War social background, and also the assimilation mechanism of cultural context under the special requirements of wartime culture. Historical experience can help inspire and enlighten our country’s current translation practice.