关键词: 乡土语言; 审美共核; 审美视阈; 模仿; 变通

Abstract: Folk language, when it enters literature, assumes literary nature, and folk literature is virtually a combination of literary folk language and folk theme. The glamour in translation of folk literature lies in representation of local cultural environment and uniqueness of its folk language. The paper reviews the shared aesthetic core, namely, revolutionary theme, folk custom and folk language, in three folk novels, Li Youcai Ban Hua, Xin ErNv Ying Xiong Zhuan and Ku Cai Hua, which were published in the 1940s and 1950s. Then it makes an analysis of the effect of representation of the aesthetic appealing of folk language in their English versions at the levels of rhyme, vocabulary, grammar and rhetoric. The authors contend that the glamour of Chinese folk language could be reproduced by means of strategies of imitation and adaptation. Whereas the former refers to source language-oriented imitation, target language-oriented imitation and dynamic imitation, the latter refers to generalization and specification, complemented representation, and translator’s creation, so that the aesthetic schema of folk language representation could be shaped. By conveying the local taste in folk novels and reserving the prints in folk language and marks of national languagein English translation, the Chinese nation’s language and culture could be protected and upheld in the process of outputting Chinese folk literature.

Keywords: folk language; aesthetic core; frame of aesthetics; imitation; adaptation