Emotive phraseological units in the novel “Аnnа Каrеninа” by Leo N. Tolstoy and their translation into Chinese

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of translating emotive phraseological units from L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina” into Chinese. The article discusses the concepts of “emotion” and “emotiveness” as linguistic phenomena. The material for the study was emotive phraseological units from L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina” and their translations into Chinese. Two translation versions were analyzed: the translation of Zhou Yang and Xie Cutai published in 1989 and the translation of Cao Ying published in 1982. Concluded that in the process of translation the translator should use different translation methods, first of all, it is the selection of an equivalent phraseological unit or descriptive translation in order to create an adequate translation and preserve the affective tone of the work.

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