Translation of Modality: A Case Study of “Phineas and Ferb”

• Main Authors: HSU, WEI-TI, 許暐迪
• Other Authors: KAO, HUAN-LI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/df79f4

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 翻譯學系碩士班 === 104 === The material of study is based on English, Taiwanese and China versions of “Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension”. The study focuses on discourse markers and modal auxiliary among English, Taiwanese dubbing (TD) and China fansubbing (CF) versions of subtitles from the perspective of modal theory of Michael Halliday (1994, 2004) and simplification theory of Mona Baker (1993). With counting up the number of discourse markers, modal auxiliary, and appellation in source text (ST) and investigate the reason for drops among target text (TT), the attention is paid to discuss the reason for simplification in ST and the translation strategy among two versions of Chinese subtitles in terms of discourse markers, modal auxiliary and appellation. The results from the case study are as follows: (1) the difference of the modal auxiliary and discourse markers between ST and TT is significant. (2) CF tends to simplify more modal auxiliary and discourse markers than TD, however, the total number of words in many sentences do not. (3) TD keeps more appellation than CF for taking children’s comprehension into consideration.