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Heilongjiang University, school of western study, English department

Graduating thesis research paper

Subject of research –study: Translation

Topic:

The glossology and influence of Harry Potter to Chinese readers

Student Name: 李宗念 Li Zongnian
Student Number: 20080014
Class: English Writing – Class No.1
Subject: Translation
Date: September 5, 2011
Teacher: Prof. Dan Ben-Canaan
The Subject
The influence of Harry Potter to Chinese readers, The glossology of Harry Potter

The Process
Magic; new world view; uninmaginable; happy; family; friends; guard; trust; different from the common novels; easy to understand; movies; J.K. Rowling; single parent; UK English; uses of words, different from American ones;

Topic
Part A：The Difference between American and British Versions of Harry Potter Series, glossology
For the writer J.K. Rowling is a Britain woman, so there are a lot of words are used different from the American writers’ novels. So discussing these difference can learn lot of uses in theses two main kinds of English versions.
Part B: The influence that Harry Potter to Chinese readers
Before the book Harry Potter published, Chinese young readers know about foreign literatures and novels are mainly about Shakespeare or other later writers’ works like The Great Gatsby, or some other novels liked by little readers like Dragonlance (a novel based on the D&D rules, first translated in Taiwan, than its’ more works are liked by more and more Chinese readers). The world created in Harry Potter gives more Chinese readers a new view to understand the magic world imagined by western writer.

Ideas
The writer is a Britain one, so the environment and education made her to write in a British people’s way, to understand and learn from the novel, we could search and browse other British novels to see weather this phenomena is common.
The Marketing of this book makes more people know about the Harry Potter’s world. The Chinese Version’s books, and the movies are much more easier to understand.
More interests to the foreign and incredible world created. Know more about the Britain
Glossology inferred in this book
later to complete

Statement
Part A:
Difference between American and British Versions of Harry Potter Series
About the book Harry Potter, there are two kinds of versions at the earliest time, one kind is called Bloomsbury (British) and another one is Scholastic (American) editions.
When Scholastic was publishing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in America, they decided to rename the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
hey claimed that the American and British uses of the word philosopher were a bit different, so therefore sorcerer was a more appropriate word. Any true Harry Potter fan, American or British, Australian or Hungarian, I'm sure will agree with MuggleMix when we say that decision should not have been made the reasons are:
1) J.K. Rowling said so, therefore it must be true. She says that if she was in a better position, she would have disagreed at the time.
2) It belittles Americans, making it seem as if they do not understand what the word "philosopher" means. Americans are smarter than that.
3) Sorcerer is unspecific. The stone could have belonged to anybody with magical powers in the book. But the British name defines who the stone belongs to and gives the name an entirely different meaning. Sorcerer is a very different word to philosopher.
4) The stone is referred to as the "Philosopher's Stone" throughout J.K. Rowling's original version, never the "Sorcerer's Stone", so why should the most central object of the book be labelled something completely different in the book title, even if its just being published in a different place?
5) How is the word "philosopher" in Britain different from the word "sorcerer" in America?
6) Philosopher's Stone is actually a historical object that people used to search for, while the Sorcerer's Stone has no factual background in real life
Some other changes in the book.
Left ones are the words J.K. Rowling first used in her Manuscript, the right ones are the words the American publisher asked to change to publish.
UK: Skip
UK: comprehensive
UK: Minister for Magic
UK: holidaying
UK: Sybill Trelawney
UK: crisps
UK: Car park
UK: football
UK: shan't
UK: lavatory seat
UK: sherbet lemon
UK: barking
UK: dustbin
UK: tinned soup
UK: roundabout
UK: wellington bookts
UK: jumper
UK: tank top
US: Dumpster
US: public school
US: Minister of Magic
US: vacationing
US: Sibyll Trelawney
US: chips
US: Parking lot
US: soccer
US: won't
US: toilet seat
US: lemon drop
US: off his rocker
US: trashcan
US: canned soup
US: carousel
US: rubber boots
US: sweater
US: sweater vest
UK: nutter
UK: walnut
UK: cupboard
UK: Augustus
UK: torch
UK: review
UK: shagpile carpet
UK: mailboxes
UK: sack
UK: humph
UK: matron
UK: pants
UK: biscuits
UK: silver
UK: while
UK: pinny

UK: leaned
UK: Pekinese
UK: schedules
UK: afterwards
US: maniac
US: satsuma
US: closet
US: Algernon
US: flashlight
US: revise
US: shag carpet
US: letter boxes
US: fire
US: hmpf
US: nurse
US: briefs
US: cookies
US: silvery
US: whilst
US: apron
US: leant
US: Pekingese
US: timetables
US: afterward

Something more about these differences, When I am editing these words using Microsoft Office Word, a lot of UK formed words are shown error by the software, for the system is a American one, so they trust their form are the correct ones. What legendary American software!

Part B
The influence of Harry Potter made to influence the network novels. The basic introduce of the book.
Today is the Internet era and an era of pictures. Network refused to print reading, the traditional flat print books have been out of fashion; reading pictures refused to read the text. Who will take their time to read books patiently. However, it is difficult to understand, there is a thick book about millions of words which is so popular in the whole world in the lament sound "books will disappear". But actually, millions of children became the fans of this book and made them back to the library from the console and the network. This wonderful book is the British writer J • K Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Harry Potter, a handsome boy who rides a broomstick and wears a pair of round glasses, has what charm that conquered the global audience J • K Rowling, once a poor single mother but now the richest woman in Britain today, what magic she used produce a reading storm in the Internet Age 1997, J·K Rowling published the first fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. In just ten years, she finished seven novels of Harry Potter series and set off a Harry Potter reading hot in the world. This series of novels translated into more than 60 languages and were sold more than 200 million. It is no longer simply a favorite literature by its readers, but evolved into a cultural phenomenon. Fantasy novels represented by Harry Potter have become a cultural trend in the western. Why Harry Potter series became a cultural trend and accepted by different cultural value system? A major reason is: the magic world Harry Potter created is not the shadow of the real world, but pure human spirit picture which once was a patent of children. However, in such a rich material society, but lost in the spirit of post-modern society, human picture of pure soul do not showed in the traditional literature and modern literary works. The general spirit of the crisis has not the appropriate comfort. Rowling created the Harry Potter largely to meet the people's pursuit of such a pure heart picture.

Conclusion
The readers who read the English versions should read the novel in a new way of Chinese versions for one can get more information and ideas about the world view and the situations of the book. The learn of the book would develop the ability of English.

Bibliography :
1. Difference between American and British Versions of Harry Potter Series
(Guide by tivier posted 3 years ago)
2. 哈利·波特与魔法石
出版社：人民文学出版社 英国、美国、台湾、大陆版本出版时间： 2000年9月
3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
出版社：Bloomsbury （布鲁姆斯伯里出版社）
出版时间：1997年6月26日