Laurence Wong
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurence Wong is involved.
2013 Seeking the golden mean: Arthur Waley’s English translation of the Xi you ji Babel 59:3, pp. 360–380 | Article
If one is to draw up, in order of usage frequency, a list of words whose authority has most often been invoked in translation studies during the past decades, <i>domestication</i> and <i>foreignizing</i> will most likely appear at the top. When they were first coined or given their new… read more
2011 Translating Shakespeare’s imagery for the Chinese audience: With reference to Hamlet and its versions in Chinese and in European languages Babel 57:2, pp. 204–225 | Article
Generally speaking, the message of a poem is conveyed on three levels: the semantic, the syntactic, and the phonological. How translatable each of these levels is to the translator depends on how much cognation there is between source and target language: the more cognation there is, the more… read more
2010 Charlotte Bosseaux: How Does it Feel? Point of View in Translation: The Case of Virginia Woolf. Babel 56:3, pp. 289–293 | Review
2006 Syntax and Translatability Babel 52:2, pp. 124–132 | Article
Abstract
This paper discusses the relationship between syntax and translatability, particularly in respect of literary texts. By translatability is meant the degree of ease with which one language lends itself to translation into another language. Through practice in the translation between… read more
2002 Translating Register: With Reference to English, French, German, and Italian Versions of the Hong lou meng Babel 48:3, pp. 247–266 | Article
1998 Lin Shu's Story-retelling as Shown in His Chinese Translation of La Dame aux camélias Babel 44:3, pp. 208–233 | Article
Abstract Lin Shu (1852-1924), one of the most important forerunners in China's history of modern literary translation, rendered some 170 works of European and American literature into Chinese during the late-Qing and early-Republican period from 1890 to 1919. In so doing, he not only heralded the… read more