An analysis of the methods for translating chinese jokes in russian

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze the methods for translating Chinese jokes in Russian. By the means of conversion,addition,reduction,synthesization,devision and some other translating methods which are constituted by literal translation and liberal translation,it directs to bring humorous color that it expressed by Chinese jokes to Russion readers,in order to have them understand Chinese humor sense and achieve the purpose of improving Chinese-Russian communications. Even though there are some differrences for the connotation of language and expressive forms between different peoples' humors,as a common language phenomena,the nature of this paper concentrates on the “jokes”.Therefore,how to translate Chinese jokes into Russian and make readers resonate in their minds,need to study the methods for translating Chinese jokes in Russian.