A Study of Translation of Death of a Salesman by Ying Ruocheng From the Perspective of Ecological Translation

Abstract

Death of a Salesman, a masterwork by renowned American playwright Arthur Miller, has been hailed as “an extraordinary landmark work, which can be deservedly called the best American drama since the Second World War”. Among the Chinese translations of Death of a Salesman, Ying Ruocheng’s translation is one of the more famous ones, which can be called a model of domestic drama translation. It contains many ingenious treatments, which are worthy of serious study. With the ecological theory becoming a global development craze, translation research based on ecology has gradually entered the public’s view. This paper takes the translation of Death of a Salesman by Ying Ruocheng as the object of study, applies the guiding principles of ecological translation theory, and analyzes the translation strategies of naturalization, amplification, paraphrasing, and set translation adopted by the translator in the translation process from the three aspects of linguistic dimension, communication dimension, and cultural dimension; In addition to expounding the guiding significance of ecological translation theory to the translation of drama texts, it also provides ideas for future drama translation and attract people’s attention to the linguistic characteristics of drama translation.