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Essay on the Principles of Translation (3rd rev. ed., 1813)

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• 1. Edinburgh in the Late Eighteenth Century |  p. IX
• 2. Bio-bibliography of Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813) and his Family |  p. XI
• 3. Tytler's Literary Works and Critical Principles |  p. XVI
• 4. Philosophical and Psychological Foundations: Reid, Campbell, and Kames |  p. XXII
• 5. The Essay on the Principles of Translation |  p. XXX
• 5.1. First Edition, 1791
• 5.2. Third Edition, 1813
• 5.3. General Laws of Translation
• 5.4. The Translator's Privilege to Alter the Original
• 6. Evaluation and Conclusion |  p. LXIII
• References to the Introduction |  p. LXVII
• Bibliography of Alexander Fraser Tytler |  p. L
• Table of Contents |  p. xi
• Introduction
• ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLES OF TRANSLATION (1813)
• Text |  p. 1
• Appendix |  p. 405
• Index |  p. 421
• Annotated Index of Persons and Works cited in the Essay |  p. 437

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Yan Fu’s 譯事三難 has rarely been directly challenged but is frequently compared with Tytler’s Principles of Translation. These two sets of principles match both in number and in the exact order of three parallel concepts. Given the canonical status of Tytler’s principles since its publication in 1790, it is hard to imagine that Yan was not influenced by Tytler in forming his principles. Following this assumption, we explore possible accounts of why and how Tytler’s three Principles of Translation could be “translated” into Yan’s “信達雅” “ Xìn - Dá - Yǎ. ” We note that Tytler’s was ranked in descending order of importance: the First General Law, which is the most important, requires a complete transcript of the original ideas (i.e., Xìn ), whereas expressing the style and manner of the original writing (i.e., Dá ) and achieving the ease of the original composition (i.e., Yǎ ) are supplementary as the Second and Third General Laws. Yet Yan’s principles tend to be understood in reverse order of importance. We explore this mismatch from cross-cultural and multi-brain perspectives based on a comparable corpora approach. Through comparing BNC with the Gigaword Chinese Corpus, it is revealed that cultural differences in the meanings of the ordinals first and third lead to the overlook of the foundational concept in English that “the first principle” is the most important, and the mistaking of the third law ( Yǎ ) as the highest one in China. This reconfiguration of cultural meanings underlines the nature of translation as a multi-brain activity situated in cultural contexts.

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