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Journal Article
Translation and reconstruction of a wonderland: Alice’s Adventures in China
2009
Overview
Focusing on the linguistic, logical as well as literary values of
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, the article studies certain issues in this classical piece of verbal art from a translational perspective in China, with special reference to Yuen Ren Chao’s translation in 1922, which highlights an array of points and helps bring a seemingly comic book under the academic limelight, directing our attention to semiotic issues in terms of metalinguistic foregrounding, witty humor, sensible malapropism, meaningful nonsense, and logical absurdity, etc. that defy translation on different levels of linguistic presentation. In view of Chao’s erudition in philosophy, mathematics, and linguistics, it discusses his expertise in reconstructing a wonderland in the Chinese context and concludes that many of the subtle yet highly logical and metalinguisitc features in
Alice
can make themselves more acutely felt from a cross-linguistic perspective.
Publisher
Springer Netherlands,Springer Nature B.V
