FDS Translation and Reconstruction of Character from the Perspective of Literary Stylistics -- A Case Study of Lin Daiyu's Discourse
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Hawkes's The Story of the Stone and Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang's A Dream of Red Mansions. Drawing on Leech and Short's stylistic framework of speech and thought presentation, the study shows that Hawkes preserves the immediacy of Daiyu's inner voice, whereas the Yangs'
preference for indirect speech dilutes her subjectivity. The findings demonstrate how discourse mode choices reshape narrative distance and
character construction, underscoring the stylistic and ideological importance of literary translation.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/rcha.v3i9.8162
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