Abstract: Recently, the films and television programs from foreign countries have started their journey to Chinese screen as the rapid development of cultural and economic globalization. Meanwhile, the experts and scholars have paid more and more attention to the subtitle translation. This paper aims to analyze if the typical subtitle translations in Brokeback Mountain are up to the requests of Skopostheorie and its three rules, namely, skopos rule, coherence rule and loyalty rule, and then tries to propose some suitable ways to solve the problems existing in the subtitle translation of Brokeback Mountain.

Key words: subtitle translation; Skopostheorie; Brokeback Mountain; 

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction1

2. Theoretical Basis: An Introduction to Skopostheorie.1

2.1 The Development of Skopostheorie

  2.1.1 Katharina Reiss’ Text Typology

  2.1.2 Hans J. Vermeer and Skopostheorie

  2.1.3 Justa Holz Manttari’s Translation Action Theory

  2.1.4 Christina Nord’s Functionality Plus Loyalty

2.2 Three Rules of Skopostheorie

2.2.1 Skopos rule

2.2.2 Coherence rule  

2.2.3 Loyalty principle

3. Analysis and Application of Skopostheorie in the Subtitle Translation of Brokeback Mountain5

  3.1 General introduction to Brokeback Mountain     

  3.2 Strategies for Subtitle Translation from Skopostheorie

3.2.1 Domestication 

3.2.2 Foreignization

3.2.3 Reduction and addition  

3.2.4 Loyalty to the style of source text 

4. Conclusion10

Bibliography.11

Acknowledgements