Author(s)

Fuxi Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Tianjin University, Jinnan, Tianjin, 300350, China

Corresponding Author

Fuxi Wang

ABSTRACT

The paper takes the rhetorical equivalence in the English-Chinese translation (Xu Lizhong, 2001) of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream as the research object, aiming to figure out the characteristics of rhetorical equivalence when dealing with corresponding expressions in the two languages. The author of the speech, Martin Luther King, is well known for his efforts in striving for the "true" freedom of African Americans. The famous speech made in 1963 in Washington during a peace demonstration named I Have a Dream is famous for its spiritual power in the language he used, which is in particular embodied in the figures of speech among lines. The paper will hereby illustrate the language in the ST (hereafter referred to as source text.) and its equivalence in the TT (hereafter referred to as target text.) in terms of expressions with figures of speech.

KEYWORDS

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Equivalence, Rhetoric

CITE THIS PAPER

Fuxi Wang, An Analysis of Rhetorical Equivalence on English-Chinese Translation of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2022) Vol. 5: 33-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2022.050408.

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