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文化专有项的翻译策略研究

On The Translation Strategies of Culture-specific Items

【作者】 吴静

【导师】 张志芳;

【作者基本信息】 南京工业大学 , 外国语言学及应用语言学, 2015, 硕士

【副题名】以《骆驼祥子》葛浩文译本为例

【摘要】 随着莫言获得2012年诺贝尔文学奖,莫言作品的英译者葛浩文的翻译成了翻译研究普遍关注的焦点。从20世纪70年代起,葛浩文译介了中国30多位作家的约50部现当代小说。夏志清称其为―中国现当代文学之首席翻译家‖,美国著名作家厄普代克称其为中国现当代文学的“接生婆”。老舍的《骆驼祥子》是中国现代白话文小说的经典作品,至今已被译成17种不同的语言。《骆驼祥子》共有四个英译本,译者分别为伊万金、詹姆斯、施晓菁和葛浩文。2010年的葛浩文译本是最新的英译本。葛浩文在二十年前就打算翻译这部小说,力图让这部中国现代文学经典的英译本―完整、忠实、可读‖。西班牙译者艾克西拉从美国作家的侦探小说的三个西班牙语译本中,观察到十一种文化专有项的翻译方法。张南峰认为艾克西拉提出的文化专有项及其翻译方法,更全面、合理。《骆驼祥子》生动地描绘了老北京的习俗,极具文化特色。本文参考奈达对翻译中文化因素的分类,把原作中的文化专有项分为物质文化专有项,社会文化专有项,宗教文化专有项,语言文化专有项,参考艾克西拉提出的文化专有项翻译理论,分析、统计葛浩文英译本中文化专有项的翻译方法和翻译策略,并探索影响葛浩文在《骆驼祥子》中文化专有项的翻译方法和翻译策略的因素。研究发现:(1)葛浩文在翻译《骆驼祥子》中的文化专有项时采用的翻译方法有音译、语言(非文化)翻译、文内解释、有限世界化、绝对世界化、同化和省略七种翻译方法。其中绝对世界化、语言(非文化)翻译、同化是葛浩文使用较多的翻译方法;(2)葛浩文翻译《骆驼祥子》中文化专有项的翻译策略以归化为主,异化为辅;(3)影响葛浩文文化专有项翻译策略的因素有文化接受的不平衡,译者的翻译观,目标语读者的期待和已有译本和定译等。

【Abstract】 As Mo Yan won the 2012‘s Nobel Prize for Literature, Howard Goldblatt‘s translation has become the focus in translation studies. Howard Goldblatt has translated about 50 modern and contemporary novels of more than 30 Chinese writers since 1970‘s. Xia Zhiqing hailed Howard Goldblatt as ―the chief translator of Chinese modern and contemporary literature‖ and American famous writer John Updike praised Howard Goldblatt as the ―midwife‖ of Chinese modern and contemporary literature.Lao She‘s Luotuo Xiangzi is a classical modern novel written in vernacular Chinese, which has been translated into 17 different languages. Luotuo Xiangzi has four English versions with translators Evan King, James, Shi Xiaojing and Howard Goldblatt respectively. Howard Goldblatt‘s 2010‘s version is the latest English version. Howard Goldblatt planned to translate the novel twenty years ago hoping to give the Chinese modern literary classic a ―complete, faithful and readable‖ English version.Spanish translator Aixelá observed eleven translation methods in translating culture-specific items from three Spanish translated versions of American writer‘s detective novel. Zhang Nanfeng proposed that Aixelá‘s classification of translation methods of culture-specific items was more comprehensive and rational. Luotuo Xiangzi is a highly culture-loaded novel vividly depicting local customs of old Beijing. According to Nida‘s classifications of cultural elements in translation, the study classifies the culture-specific items in Luotuo Xiangzi into material culture-specific items, social culture-specific items, religious culture-specific items and linguistic culture-specific items and analyzes the translation methods and translation strategies in Howard Goldblatt‘s version as well as factors influencing Howard Goldblatt‘s choice of translation strategies with reference to Aixelá‘s culture-specific item translation theory.The study has the following findings. Firstly, Howard Goldblatt‘s translation methods of culture-specific items include transliteration, linguistic(non-cultural) translation, intratexual gloss, limited universalization, absolute universalization, naturalization and deletion. Among the seven translation methods, absolute universalization, linguistic(non-cultural) translation and naturalization are three main translation methods Howard Goldblatt adopts; secondly, domestication is the main translation strategy while foreignization is the complementary translation strategy; thirdly, the factors influencing Howard Goldblatt‘s choice of translation methods and translation strategies include the imbalance of cultural acceptance, the translator‘s translation ideas, expectation of target readers and previous translated versions and established version.

  • 【分类号】H315.9;I046
  • 【被引频次】1
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