PRAGMATIC MARKERS “WELL” AND “SO” IN FINDING NEMO AND THEIR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS IN "ĐI TÌM NEMO"
Abstract
Pragmatic markers, considered as one of the best-known sources of troubles in translation, have received considerable attention from researchers. This study therefore, offers a contrastive analysis of “well” and “so” occurring in an extract of the film Finding Nemo and their translation in the Vietnamese dubbed and subtitled versions. The occurrences of "well and "so" in the data were analyzed according to a functional classification framework and compared with their translation equivalents by contrastive analysis (CA) to find out the translation strategies applied and to evaluate translation effectiveness. The findings reveal that "well" tends
to be omitted more often than "so" in the Vietnamese translations while "so" appears to be the easier item whose functions are usually well captured by single-word equivalents. The study also shows how careful
analysis may help the translators achieve effective and natural translation. Implications for EFL teaching and translating tasks as well as suggestions for further research are also discussed.
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