การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบสำนวนจีนใน ซีโหยวจี้ กับฉบับแปลภาษาไทย ไซอิ๋ว / พาสนินทร์ วงศ์วุฒิสาโรช = A comparative study of Chinese idiomatic expressions in Xiyou Ji and its Thai translation Sai-io / Pardsanin Wongwoottisaroch
This research serves two main purposes. The first part of the thesis studies the grammatical structures of all the Chinese idiomatic expressions in Xiyou Ji, in order to understand their main characteristics. The second part studies and analyzes the translation of these Chinese idiomatic expressions in Sai-io, the Thai translation of Xiyou Ji. The grammatical structures of the Chinese idiomatic expressions in Xiyou Ji can be categorized into 7 main types, namely, word level, subject and predicate, verb and object, serial verb, causative construction, subordination, and co-ordination. The three most frequent structures are co-ordination, subject and predicate, and subordination. The translation of these expressions in Sai-io can be divided into 2 groups: translated and non-translated. The translated expressions can be categorized into 4 subgroups: equivalent Thai idioms, descriptions of the meaning, transliterations, and phrases with different meanings. The non-translated can be categorized into 3 subgroups: expressions occurring in a non-translated section, expressions occurring in a section which has been translated in a modified literal manner, and expressions which have been omitted although the surrounding words are translated.
