【作者】 刘晓；

【导师】 李力；

【作者基本信息】 厦门大学 ， 英语笔译， 2014， 硕士

【摘要】 《语言本能》是美国著名实验心理学家、认知科学家、科普作家史蒂芬·亚瑟·平克(Steven Arthur Pinker)1994年出版的科普书籍。作者从语言是人类生物本能的角度,广泛讨论了几乎所有跟语言相关的问题或迷思。针对各个问题,平克以幽默甚至像是聊天的语气举出许多生动的实例,论述上更保持清晰和强而有力的逻辑性。《语言本能》在1999年被《科学美国人》杂志选为塑造出20世纪的100本书之一。该书为所有对语言感到好奇的读者打开了一扇窗,是认知语言学领域不可多得的好书。鉴于该书现行的中文译本存在诸多错误,笔者绝定对其进行重译,纠正了现存汉译本中的错误。在本翻译报告中,笔者介绍了本翻译任务的文本来源、翻译目的,收录了《语言本能》从第25页至第39页的原文和本文作者的译文,对自己的译文、翻译策略、翻译中的问题进行了分析,并将笔者译文与现存译文进行了对比。同时,笔者总结全文,并阐述了自己在整个翻译过程中的心得体会、存在的问题及展望。更多还原

【Abstract】 The Language Instinct is a masterpiece of American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science writer Steven Arthur Pinker. Published in1994, the book discusses almost all the language-related questions or myths. Pinker presents every example with humorous words. The Language Instinct was chosen by the magazine Scientific American in1999as one of the100books that have shaped the world. The book opens a window for all those who have curiosity in the nature of language and is indeed one of the best books in cognitive linguistics. As there are too many mistakes in the Chinese version of the book, the author of this report intend to re-translate it now.This report introduces the scarce of the text and the purpose of re-translating it, the original text and suggested translation, an analysis of the author’s translation including the translation process, guiding theories, translation techniques as well as mistakes in the previous Chinese translation. Also, what have been learned in this translation project as well as unresolved issues are discussed.更多还原