Terminology, Culture and Hermeneutic Translation: The Women Images in <i>Confucian Analects</i> and <i>Proverbs</i>

Xiaojuan Peng

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Terminology, Culture and Hermeneutic Translation: The Women Images in Confucian Analects and Proverbs

Xiaojuan Peng

Published in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 9, Issue 4)

Received: 8 September 2023 Accepted: 1 November 2023 Published: 11 November 2023

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Abstract

Neo-Confucianism represents diversities from what Confucius says in Analects. Moreover, feminist biblical interpretation might have been deviated from the original sense of text for designing and implementing feminism objectives. It probably refers to transforming cultural recognition unconsciously and silently, which influences the explanation of Confucian Analects and Proverbs and the correlative feminism translation innovation consecutively. Through the interpretation on relevant terms of women images, male chauvinism, and feminism, it teases the objective women profile descriptions and subjective ones influenced by vicissitude of concepts and different social backgrounds in Analects and Proverbs. Based on that, it explores the positive and negative women images, and literarily demonstrates them in textual and extended domain, referred in Analects. Meanwhile, it detects the obverse and reverse women images, and takes hermeneutic explanation of them from visible and implied aspects, constructed in Proverbs. In view of above, it adopts the longitudinal diachronic retrospection in hermeneutic method, and the comparison of multi- versions of two texts on typical women images from the lateral synchronic angle. As a result, the two ancestral sayings and words reveal striking echoes and disparities, which provides a communicative opportunity between east and west classics to form constructing background thoughts for cross-cultural text translation studies.

Published in	International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijalt.20230904.13
Page(s)	120-129
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Women Images, Confucian Analects, Proverbs, Culture, Hermeneutic Translation, Terminology

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Peng X. Terminology, Culture and Hermeneutic Translation: The Women Images in Confucian Analects and Proverbs. Int J Appl Linguist Transl. 2023;9(4):120-129. doi: 10.11648/j.ijalt.20230904.13

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