A Contrastive Study of Modal Responsibility in the English Translated Texts of <i>The Analects</i> by Arthur Waley and D. C. Lau

WEI Yin-xia

Jun. 2021

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WEI Yin-xia. A Contrastive Study of Modal Responsibility in the English Translated Texts of The Analects by Arthur Waley and D. C. Lau[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(5): 28-37.

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WEI Yin-xia. A Contrastive Study of Modal Responsibility in the English Translated Texts of The Analects by Arthur Waley and D. C. Lau[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(5): 28-37.

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A Contrastive Study of Modal Responsibility in the English Translated Texts of The Analects by Arthur Waley and D. C. Lau

WEI Yin-xia

University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

Received Date: 2018-06-16
Available Online: 2021-06-01

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As the classics of Confucianism, The Analects contains lots of Chinese traditional culture. And it is generally known the modality system of Classics Translation is directly related to the quality of target text. Accordingly, this paper, which is based on modal responsibility from Systemic Functional Linguistics, offers a contrastive analysis about their realization between the English version of Arthur Waley’s and D. C. Lau’s The Analects by PowerConc. The results show that modal adjuncts, psychological verbs and the negative forms appear more in Waley’s version. However, D. C. Lau would like to use more adjective phrases, passive voice and the structure of “there be ...”. Overall, when translating The Analects, Waley tends to take high modal responsibility, whereas D. C. Lau takes translating strategies to avoid responsibility and shows low modal responsibility. And the significant heterogeneity of modality responsibility between two versions is deeply influenced by the translator’s attitude to interpersonal function of The Analects.
- the English version of The Analects,
- Systemic Functional Linguistics,
- Modal Responsibility,
- contrastive study

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