The Importance Of Song Translation

As the accelerating process of globalization develops, international communications and cultural exchanges between countries have become much deeper, which has enhanced the understanding of each other. In the past decades, a large number of foreign songs have been imported into China. Meanwhile, numeral Chinese songs have been played among the rest of the world. At present, song is one of the most significant forms of entertainment and relaxation. Except for its entertaining role, A piece of song can serve to promote language learning, social communications and cultural exchanges among nations with different languages besides its entertaining role. What’s more, song is an efficient approach for people to express their feelings, it is from the

First, at present, the guiding theory applied to song translation is still relatively simple. Many articles on song translation focus on several foreign translation theories. The most common translation theories include Nida 's functional equivalence and German functionalist teleology. In the existing related articles, the application of theory is not wide enough, and the depth and breadth of the research need to be further tapped. Second, there are still some shortcomings in the research methods of song translation. Many articles analyze the examples and compare the original words with the translated words at the semantic level based on the inadequacies and merits of the cited cases or the analysis of the characteristics of the lyrics so as to derive the translation criteria and the specific usage. For example, the translation of songs such as Doraemon and Edelweiss has been quoted repeatedly and there is not much room for further research. All these articles discuss the specific methods of translation at the micro level, and then put forward personal opinions. However, there are not many articles involved in the construction of the theory of song translation. Third, the proportion of Chinese-English song translation studies is imbalanced. More than 80% of the articles collected in China Journal Net and Wanfang Academic Thesis Database are English-Chinese translations of songs, such as My View on English Lyrics Translation and English-Chinese Translation of Lyrics. So far, no article has been devoted to the English translation of Chinese songs. In addition, the specific studies on translation phenomena and techniques focus on English-Chinese and Chinese-English translations. Only a few articles deal with the conversion between Japanese, French and Chinese, which shows that there is still not enough research on the translation of