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This study uses Xia Ji'an's Diary as the source text for translation. The linguistic features of the text exhibit a transitional style, blending vernacular speech with classical diction, positioned between modern and classical Chinese, with minimal influence from Europeanized syntax. The text inherently contains a wealth of indeterminacies, which are primarily distributed across multiple levels, including cultural connotations, emotional expression, intertextual associations, cognitive schemata, and linguistic forms.
During the translation process, these indeterminacies create several challenges: the systematic misalignment of cultural symbols may lead to information overload or erasure; ambiguous emotions and contradictory valences are susceptible to distortion through cultural filters; implicit intertextual links are difficult to activate; underlying logical chains and presupposed schemata can easily create cross-cultural cognitive gaps; additionally, linguistic challenges such as polysemy, syntactic ambiguities, and opaque pragmatic intentions complicate the process.
This study employs Roman Ingarden's theory of the concretization of textual indeterminacies as its framework to guide the development of strategies addressing the aforementioned challenges. Concurrently, questionnaires based on Reception Aesthetics are constructed to investigate readers' receptiveness to the concretization outcomes in the translated text.
Based on case analysis and reader surveys, the study concludes that translators should adopt layered and dynamically synergistic concretization strategies tailored to various categories of indeterminacies. The effective synergy of these strategies aims to facilitate the reader's process of concretization within the target text, striving to balance information fidelity, cultural comprehensibility, and experiential depth with the target reader's cognitive load and cultural receptiveness. The ultimate goal is to cross-culturally reconstruct the text's meaning network while optimizing reader response.
The strategies summarized in this study are not only applicable to translating similar distinctive Chinese diary texts but also serve as reference points for enhancing the readability and comprehensibility of literary texts in general.
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