Translating Tagore's Stray Birds into Chinese: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Chinese Poetry Translation

by Yuanyi Ma and Bo Wang

Book Overview

Translating Tagore's 'Stray Birds' into Chinese explores the choices in poetry translation in light of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and illustrates the ways in which readers can achieve a deeper understanding of translated works in English and Chinese.

Focusing on Rabindranath Tagore's 'Stray Birds', a collection of elegant and philosophical poems, as a source text, Ma and Wang analyse four Chinese target texts by Zheng Zhenduo,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367415461
• ISBN13: 9780367415464
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"