Translation Strategies of Culture-Specific Items and Cultural Identity: A Case Study on William A. Lyell’s Translation of “Diary of a Madman”

Since the cultural turn in translation studies was proposed, researchers have focused on elements translation. How to construct identity needs be taken into consideration. Meanwhile, culture-specific items (hereafter, CSIs) are one of most difficult issues for translators, especially literary Researchers put forward different strategies solve problems CSIs and explored use those specific textual materials. This work probed employed William A. Lyell’s English version “Diary a Madman” based Aixelá’s model their effect construction Chinese identity. The results demonstrated that frequent strategy linguistic (non-cultural) translation, followed by absolute universalization. In addition, conservation methods were more helpful constructing than substitution approaches.