The explicitation in translation or how to translate into Spanish the euphemisms of three Chinese classics

Abstract

In this article, we intend to examine the explicitation as a universal of translation through the translation into Spanish of euphemisms in three Chinese literary novels. The results indicate that explicitation is a frequently used technique of translation in the studied corpus of literary texts, which is consistent with the hypothesis of explicitation proposed by various theorists; in addition, through our analysis, we have been able to verify that the degree of explicitation is associated with the field of the original euphemism and is also related to the translation style of the translator.