On Howard Goldblatt’s Translation from the Perspective of Translator’s Cultural Identity: Taking the Translation of Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh as an Example Abstract Ever since the structuralists made their first appearance in the 1930s, the traditional translation theories have dominated the translation practice. They usually defined translation as a transformation of linguistic signs from the source text language into the target text language. This situation has changed in 1970s. A new branch of translation theory discusses translation on the cultural level. The translator's status has gained prominence. At the same time, the term of cultural identity is discussed hotly.60542

The paper mainly discusses the influences of the Howard Goldblatt's cultural identity on his translation works through the analysis and exploitation of the book called Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh.

Goldblatt is successful in translating Chinese works. And he owes his success to his special cultural identity. Because as an American, he has a good mastery of the English language and he is aware of what American readers like and want to read. On the other hand, Howard Goldblatt indeed has his own limitations. As a man with his special cultural identity, he knows the American culture better than the Chinese culture. That is why he fails to bring out the implied meanings of many of cultural-loaded words and sentences the author chose to use in the original work.

This thesis falls into five chapters. Chapter One is a brief introduction to the research background, purpose and significance, research methodology and structure of the thesis. In Chapter Two, the development of cultural identity is reviewed. Translator’s cultural identity is analyzed in Chapter Three. In Chapter Four, Howard Goldblatt’s cultural identity is demonstrated in detail. The last chapter concludes the whole thesis.

Keywords: translation; cultural identity; Howard Goldblatt 

从译者文化身份角度谈葛浩文的翻译——以《师傅越来越幽默》为例

摘要传统的语言学翻译观认为翻译只是不同语言间的转换，而这个观念一直占据着翻译理论和实践研究的主导地位。直到20世纪70年代，翻译研究的工作者才渐渐将研究视角从语言学层面向文化层面转移。开始关注文化对翻译的影响的学者越来越多，译者的地位也越来越重要。译者的文化身份研究成为热点之一。本文着重探讨的是译者的文化身份对翻译的影响。通过对美国翻译家葛浩文及其对莫言的小说 《师傅越来越幽默》的探讨，分析译者特殊的文化身份在其翻译作品中留下的印记和产生的作用。

葛浩文在中译英翻译上取得的成就要归功于其特殊的文化身份。葛浩文作为一个美国人，他能将英语这门语言熟练运用和掌握，而且他很清楚国外读者喜欢什么题材，想读什么。另一方面，葛浩文的翻译也有自身的局限性。由于特殊的文化身份，葛浩文对美国文化的了解远远多过中国文化，这使得他在翻译原作中的一些带有明显中国文化印记的词语和表达时，不能够完全将其隐含意义同时传达给读者。

本文由五章组成。第一章简要介绍研究的背景，目的和意义，研究方法及本文的框架结构。第二章对文化身份的发展做了简要回顾。第三章对译者的文化身份做了分析。第四章探讨葛浩文的文化身份对《师傅越来越幽默》译本的影响。第五章结论部分，总结全文。

毕业论文关键词：翻译； 文化身份； 葛浩文

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Background of the Study 1

1.2