A Study of the English Translation of Culture-loaded Words in Life and Death are Wearing Me Out from the Perspective of Schema Theory

This paper focuses on the culture value of the novel Life and Death are Wearing Me Out and tries to probe into the English translation by Howard Goldblatt. Cultural schema theory is a branch of schema theory and different scholars define cultural schema differently. Culture-loaded words are the specific items carrying unique connotation of culture of various nations. Under the guide and framework of cultural schema, this paper analyzes several translation strategies of the translator.