Open AccessStrategies for Translating English Passive Sentences into Vietnamese
Author(s) -
Xuan My Nguyen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of tesol and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2768-4563
DOI - 10.54855/ijte22216
Subject(s) - vietnamese , linguistics , computer science , subject (documents) , generalization , natural language processing , action (physics) , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics , philosophy , world wide web , physics , quantum mechanics , mathematical analysis
This study examines some most common strategies for the Vietnamese translation of English passive voice such as “The use of markers ‘được’/‘bị’”, “Change to active”, “Paraphrasing” in order to find out the frequency and the rules for the use of those strategies by collecting and analyzing the data from the English and Vietnamese versions of a novel named “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and a book named “A Brief History of Time”.And the findings of this study disapproves the view that Vietnamese active sentences are the dominant choice for translating English passive voice since its results indicate that English It-clefts or English agentless passive sentences where the agent of the action is unclear or concerned with generalization rather than specific individuals have a high tendency of being translated into active structures in Vietnamese while using a marker like 'được' or 'bị' and subject-less active sentences are the primary ways for translating other kinds of English agentless passive sentences into Vietnamese.Besides, the results of the research also indicate that the use of markers 'được'/'bị' is frequently applied to translate agent-included passives, but the position of the agent in Vietnamese sentences varies according to its features.