Research on the“Equivalent Effect”of Subtitling Translation in GarfieldⅡ

摘要

As a large number of foreign films have flooded into the Chinese film market, subtitling translation plays an important role in helping the audience understand and learn about some information and cultures from different countries. This paper main-ly uses Peter Newmark’s“equivalent effect”as a theoretical foundation to analyze the features of two kitties’(Garfield and Prince) source language (English) and target language (Chinese) in the film GarfieldⅡbased on their living surroundings and so-cial status.