Author(s)

Long Shangzhen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Education College of Jinan University, Jiangmen 529738, China

Corresponding Author

Long Shangzhen

ABSTRACT

The Three-body Problem has many a reader in China and has aroused great response after being translated into the West. With the development of translation studies, we should pay attention to translation strategies at the textual level and attach importance to the generation and selection of various paratexts complementary to the translating. In view of this, the purpose of this paper is aimed to examine translation strategies of the English version of The Three-body Problem in terms of paratexts, and to explore how it works to help the target text to be widely and successfully disseminated and translated in the English world.

KEYWORDS

Science fiction, Translation strategies, Paratextual strategies, English version of the three-body problem

CITE THIS PAPER

Long Shangzhen, Paratextual Translation Strategies of the English Version of the Three-Body Problem. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2022) Vol. 5: 18-22. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2022.050105.

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