Intercultural translation problems in adolescent fictions–“Wenn das Glück kommt” as an example

[[abstract]]台灣的青少年小說近年來受到青少年廣泛喜愛而逐漸蓬勃發展，同時因引進大量的外國青少年小說讓國內該年齡層讀者有了更多元的選擇，進而豐富了該讀者群的市場。此一趨勢，雖拓展了台灣青少年的國際視野，亦突顯翻譯之跨文化差異，然翻譯所產生之跨文化差異問題較易被譯者忽略，僅針對語言轉換多加著墨，此舉忽略了文化的重要性，進而造成青少年閱讀翻譯小說時常形成文化衝突或理解錯誤。另外，青少年小說主要的訴求對象為青少年，因此，譯者在翻譯時必須考量到目的語國家之青少年語言程度及其風格，由於該階段年齡之語言程度不及成人，社會經歷也不足，因此譯者在語言運用上則盡可能使用青少年可理解的文字及用語，而多運用青少年常用的習慣用語能更引起讀者的興趣，並增加小說的可讀性。為此本論文試以金惠康的跨文化交際翻譯理論，以德國青少年文學作家米莉亞．裴斯勒 （Mirjam Pressler）之青少年小說《當幸福來臨時》 （Wenn das Glück kommt）為例，檢視在翻譯青少年小說時，譯者如何有效地運用翻譯策略處理文化翻譯問題，而這些翻譯策略譯者是否有處理不當之處。 本論文將所蒐集之文化翻譯問題實例進行分類為：食物名稱、物品名稱、植物名稱、動物名稱、特有詞、故事及遊戲名稱、貨幣名稱、地方及機構名稱、慣用語及諺語、文章標題、其他文化11類，並選取較具代表性之實例檢視其翻譯策略之合適性，另外也針對譯者誤譯部分進行分析，最後根據分析的結果提出個人的看法與建議，希望藉由此論文的研究結果能為台灣青少年小說在文化翻譯的提升有所幫助。[[abstract]]In recent years the youth fiction in Taiwan are widely popular and gradually booming. At the same time, Taiwan has introduced a large number of foreign youth fictions to allow Teenagers to have more choices and enriched the youth fiction’s market. Although this trend expands the international perspective of Taiwan’s teenagers, the cross-cultural differences in translation should not be ignored. The translators pay attention only to language transformation. It would neglect the importance of culture, causing young people to have cultural conflicts or misunderstanding when they read translated fictions. In addition, so the translator must take the youth’s language proficiency and style of Target language’s country into consideration. Since their language proficiency is weaker than adults and their social experiences are also insufficient, therefore, the translators should be cautious about coping with those details to possible be. For instance, it can arouse the reader’s interests, and readably of using teenagers’ language. As a result, this paper uses cross-cultural communication translation as my theoretical framework, and takes the youth fiction “Wenn das Glück kommt”, written by German Youth Literature Writer- Mirjam Pressler writes, as my case. I want to find out how to effectively use translation strategies dealing with cultural translation problems, and exam whether these strategies are inappropriate or not. In this thesis, the collected examples of cultural translation problems are classified as 11 categories: Food, goods, plants, animals, specific names, name of stories and games, name of the currency, name of local institution, idioms and proverbs, title of the article and other cultures. I select representative examples of those mentioned above and also analyze the misleading parts. The final results of my analysis hope to improve the quality of Taiwan’s youth fictions and highlight the significant of cross-cultural differences in translation