美劇絕望的主婦中修辭語言及其翻譯的研究

1、河北大學碩士學位論文美劇《絕望的主婦》中修辭語言及其翻譯的研究姓名：劉劍華申請學位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學專業(yè)指導教師：牛云平2011-05Abstract IIAbstract Desperate Housewives, a currently well-known American soap opera, is not only a great hit on the American market, but also a hug

2、e success in China, especially won the heart of college students and urban white collars. To satisfy the great demands of the audiences, the Desperate Housewives is now broadcasting Season 7, from which we can see its po

3、pularity. Therefore, many scholars have been attracted to do research on the opera, most of which focus on the humorous language, female language and subtitle translating activity guided by the translating theory, few of

4、 them have done a systemic study from the point of rhetoric device, which is exactly the originality of this thesis. As a matter of fact, a great bunch of rhetoric devices have been used in this opera, such as simile, me

5、taphor, hyperbole, personification, pun and so on. Though as common as they are, without these effective rhetoric devices, the conversation would be rather boring and bland, the plot would be simply dull and drab, losing

6、 its present glamour and popularity. Rhetoric translation is a hard branch in the field of translation. Literal translation or free translation？As the author is concerned, literal translation is better when a relevant rh

7、etoric is available and their expressions and cultural images are close. Otherwise, addition, omission, extension, shifts of rhetoric devices， replacement should be used to compensate the translation, for the sake of rep

8、roducing the original rhetoric effects. Different rhetoric and contexts should be taken into consideration to choose an appropriate translation method, most importantly to transfer the original meaning precisely while gu

9、arantying the influence and easy understanding of the translation. This thesis takes the rhetoric language as the subject of study. The TV series Desperate Housewives is selected as the research material, to study the fu

10、nctions and translating methods of the rhetoric devices. Most of the example sentences are chosen from the newest Season 5, 6 and 7. This thesis is composed of six chapters. The first chapter is the introduction part, ma

11、inly dwells on the purpose, significance, research status home and abroad in this field and the originality and thesis structure. The second chapter is an introduction to rhetoric, first definition, then development hist

12、ory and classifications of rhetoric. The following chapter 3, 4 and 5 are the main bodies of the thesis, corresponding example sentences are chosen to analyze the lexical, syntactical and phonetic rhetoric devices, mainl