Shifts of Appraisal Meaning and Character Depiction Effect in Translation: A Case Study of the English Translation of Mai Jia’s In the Dark

Yiying FAN, Jia MIAO

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This paper aims to explore the translation effect of character depiction in Mai’s In the Dark from an appraisal perspective. Through a comparative analysis of the affect, judgment, and appreciation in ST and TT, this paper demonstrates that translators rewrite the evaluative meaning of attitude in the ST due to the differences in ideology, social ethics and cultural images between East and West, which makes the characters in the translation more expected for Western readers’ attitude cognition.

 


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In the Dark; Appraisal theory; Novel translation; Character depiction

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/11484

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