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立法语言的模糊性与法律翻译
Fuzziness in Legislative Language and Legal Translation
【作者】 王茜;
【导师】 赵德玉;
【作者基本信息】 中国海洋大学 , 外国语言学及应用语言学, 2011, 硕士
【摘要】 随着我国加入世贸组织以及全球一体化进程的加快,我们与世界各国的联系正日益紧密,在政治、经济、文化等领域的交往逐步深入。在如此纷繁复杂的跨国交流下,完善我国的法律法规对于我国进一步扩大国际交流起着重大的作用。为了使别国了解我国的各项法规,对于国内法律的翻译就显得尤为重要,所以法律翻译已成为翻译学者关注的焦点。法律语言最重要的特征就是精确性。在立法语言中,立法者试图用最准确明了的语言去传达最深刻、丰富的法律信息,模糊性似乎在法律语言中是应极力避免的。然而作为一种自然语言,又处于社会生活之中,模糊性是不可避免的。法律语言的模糊性不仅没有削弱法律的精确性及严谨性,反而是对其的补充,并且有着自己独特的作用。本文主要通过模糊集合理论探讨立法语言的模糊性成因和其存在的合理性,并以《中华人民共和国刑法》为例,总结了模糊性在《刑法》中的表现。通过对对等翻译理论和功能翻译理论的理解,简略概括了模糊语的翻译方法。本文分为五个章节。第一章概括介绍了法律语言的分类,同时以具体例子分析了法律语言的词汇和句法特点。这里,作者以《刑法》为实例,进一步去印证和探讨前人总结的法律语言特点。第二章通过介绍模糊集合理论,探讨模糊语言学这一领域。从语义学和语用学两个角度解释模糊性是语言的固有属性。第三章进一步深入了解立法语言的特点,可以说这是对第一章法律语言特点的补充。分析了模糊性在立法语言中存在的原因,及其在《刑法》中的体现,总结了模糊性在《刑法》中出现的必要性;概括了模糊性与精确性的关系。第四章介绍了对等翻译理论和功能翻译理论,发现对于模糊语的翻译而言,这两种理论各有所长,可以进行综合利用。第五章以《刑法》中的具体实例总结了对模糊语言的翻译策略。
【Abstract】 Since China entered into WTO and the progress of globalization, the connection between China and the other countries is getting closer. There is a trend that the contact among the countries in the politic, economic and cultural fields is becoming deeper and deeper. Under such circumstances, it is vital to perfect our laws and regulations in enlarging international communication. Thus, the exquisite translation of the domestic laws is of the most importance. And legal translation has drawn lots of attention from translators.Accuracy is the foremost feature of legal language. In legislative language, the legislators try their best to employ the most precise and clear expressions to indicate far-reaching and meaningful legal information. It seems that fuzzy expressions should never be found in legislative language. However, as a natural language and in a social life, fuzziness is an avoidable feature of legal language. Fuzziness does not weaken the accuracy and rigorousness of the law; instead, it is a supplement of the law and has its own distinct effect. The thesis discusses the reasons and necessity of fuzziness in legislative texts through the fuzzy set theory and makes a brief summary of the manifestation in the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China. Based on equivalent and functional translation theories, the thesis puts forward some strategies to translate fuzzy expressions.The thesis is composed of five chapters.The first chapter gives a brief introduction to legal language and analyzes the lexical and syntactic features of legal language with the Criminal Law as a specific example.The second chapter introduces the fuzzy set theory to discuss fuzzy linguistics. It draws a conclusion that fuzziness is an inherent attribute of languages through the perspectives of semantics and pragmatics.The third chapter makes a further understanding of the features of legislative language, which can be treated as a supplementary part of chapter one. Then the author analyzes the reasons of fuzziness in legislative language and its manifestation in the Criminal Law and its necessity. Then in this chapter the author sums up the relationship between fuzziness and precision.In the fourth chapter the author focuses on the equivalent and functional translation theories. It is found that with regard to the translation of fuzzy expressions, the unity of the two theories could be a better way.The last chapter summarizes some translation strategies of fuzzy words with specific examples extracted from the Criminal Law.