Author(s)

Yajuan Zhou ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, China

Corresponding Author

Yajuan Zhou

ABSTRACT

As a cross-cultural intertextual communication, translation is not an isolated and non-subjective communication, but a dynamic communication process. Translation is a dialogue between one text and another, and also a dialogue process between the translator and the reader. Translation is not only a main way of communication between the text and the reader, but also a bridge of communication between the reader and the author and the text. As a cross-cultural communication, it involves two different cultures, and intertextuality extends the concept of "intertextuality" between two different cultures discussed in traditional translation studies to translation studies, which breaks through the traditional translation research model and turns its attention to the translator again. From the perspective of social psychology, this paper makes a preliminary discussion on the role of intertextuality in literary translation. With intertextuality theory as the core, this paper makes a theoretical exploration of literary translation and explores the relationship between it and literary translation, thus expanding the theoretical space of literary translation. From the perspective of intertextuality, the intertextuality strategy adopted by the translator in translation will affect the translator's own role orientation. From the perspective of translation itself, the translator plays two important roles in translation activities: one is the intertextual subject, the other is the intertextual object, that is, the reader. The quality of the translated text and the acceptance of the target language readers directly affect the status of the translator. Since the integration of intertextuality theory and translation studies, the intertextuality phenomenon in translation studies express its breakthrough of the traditional "closed door" model and turned its attention to the translator again. From the perspective of intertextuality, this paper analyzes the impact of translators' individual psychology and certain social psychological factors on the translation of texts with different cultural differences. Translation is a psychological activity, which involves the translator's linguistic psychology, aesthetic psychology and cultural psychology. This paper holds that in the process of translation, the translator's psychological activities present multiple characteristics. Therefore, while combining the intertextuality characteristics, we should also pay attention to the impact of social psychological factors on the translator and literary works, which is conducive to a more in-depth study of multi-dimensional literary translation.

KEYWORDS

Intertextuality, Literary translation, Strategy, Social psychology

CITE THIS PAPER

Yajuan Zhou, The Influence of Intertextuality on Literary Translation from the Perspective of Social Psychology—with the Reference to Gone with the Wind. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 37-43. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060307.

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