Study of Chinese and English Discourse in The Three Body problem based on Proximization Theory
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https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpep.v10i.5394Keywords:
The Three Body Problem; Proximization Theory; Comparative Analysis.Abstract
Taking Liu Cixin’s science fiction novel The Three Body problem as a research text, this paper conducts a critical discourse analysis of the literary text from the Proximization Theory, and explores the discourse strategies contained in the crisis construction of The Three Body problem. At the same time, by comparing the original Chinese text of The Three Body problem with the English translation, the paper aims to investigate the influence of language shift on the strategy of proximization. It is found that the author constructs the threat of the Three-Body Crisis to humanity through three dimensions: temporal, spatial and axiological; at the same time, the convergence effect of the English translation is enhanced in the spatial dimension compared to the original text, while the effect of the English translation is weakened in the temporal dimension, and the effect of the original Chinese text and the English translation is approximately the same in axiological dimension. This paper extends the scope of Proximization Theory and enriches the research in the field of literary texts into their original languages.
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