CHALLENGES IN LITERARY TRANSLATION: A CASE IN ENGLISH-VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION OF “THE GREAT GATSBY”
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The present study aims to analyze challenges in an English-Vietnamese translation of “The Great Gatsby”. The major method adopted includes qualitative descriptive approach, which enables the researcher to describe the problems in the English-Vietnamese translation of “The Great Gatsby”. The findings reveal a number of constraints associated with linguistic and cultural differences between the source and the target language. Several suggestions to overcome the hindrances are also proposed.
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challenges, English-Vietnamese translation, literary translation
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