A Study of Evan King's Rickshaw Boy from the Perspective of Toury's Norm Theory on its Interlingual Rewriting
Translation is more of a social activity than code switching.It is closely related to history,culture and society.Therefore,the success of a translation involves various social factors.Evan King's Rickshaw Boy provides a very good example.In spite of the obvious rewriting of the original,the translation gained great popularity among its English readers.This phenomenon could be better explained from the perspective of Gideon Toury's norm theory.