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思果翻译批评思想研究
A Study on Frederick Tsai’s Translation Criticism
【作者】 陈琦;
【导师】 朱玉彬;
【作者基本信息】 安徽大学 , 外国语言学及应用语言学, 2015, 硕士
【摘要】 思果(1918-2004),原名蔡濯堂,祖籍江苏镇江,是香港著名散文家、翻译家。他的翻译生涯长达40余年,翻译了20多本著作、60多首诗歌和诸多(many)短篇。除了翻译实践外,思果还从事翻译教学、翻译研究和翻译批评等多个相关领域,从而使其翻译观对翻译实践有较强的指导性,且由于他的翻译观坚持对纯正中文的追求,反对现行的中文西化,所以对现代译文中翻译腔严重的现象也具有一定的警示作用。但是,由于深受中国传统文论的影响,思果的翻译观也因为只谈技巧欠缺理论而招人诟病。思果的翻译批评思想深植于中国传统文化,将其系统化,理论化有助于指导具体的翻译实践,同时对中国现代翻译批评理论建设有着重要价值。本文选择了思果在晚年采用印象式批评法选评一套名著名译中的译注作为研究对象,因为这套名著译评在很高程度上还原了其翻译观的全貌,我们将通过对译注的研究总结出思果翻译批评思想的特点并尝试探索思果翻译批评思想背后的理论基础与原则。首先本文将通过对这套丛书中的译注进行定量和定性分析来回答两个问题:一、思果的翻译批评倾向性和原则是什么?二、思果翻译批评思想背后的理论基础是什么?我们先将五本选评中所有译注分为两类:语言相关评注和对非语言内容的评注,其中我们将结合思果的翻译批评标准以及德国翻译学理论家Wolfram Wilss所提出的翻译批评框架将语言相关评注分为四类:“贴切的”的批评,“正确的”批评,“不贴切的”批评,“错误的”批评,然后再按照评注对象又将其分为字词翻译,句子翻译,翻译策略及无法分类四类。在对语料分类统计以及比较之后,我们发现思果翻译批评主要有以下两个倾向:一、思果的对五本名著名译的评注依然是以对字句的评注为主,对译者的翻译策略及译者修养等其他翻译相关问题的批评为辅。二、思果在评注中偏向于赞同,少有否定性的批评,这与他所选的译本也是相关的,唯独对傅东华所译的《飘》提出不少不同看法。之后综合定量和定性分析结果对思果的翻译批评思想进行系统性归纳得出思果翻译批评思想的原则。最后,在前文研究的基础上结合思果的翻译研究著作,分析思果翻译批评思想形成的动因,归纳出思果翻译批评背后的理论基础,并尝试提出思果翻译批评的理论框架,以期对今后的文学翻译批评提供一点帮助。
【Abstract】 Frederick Tsai (1918-2004), formerly called Cai Zhuotang, whose ancestors lived in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, is the famous proser and expert in translation in Hong Kong. He has been engaged in translation for over 40 years and has translated 20 books,60 poems and many short stories. Besides his translation practice, Tsai also involves in other correlated fields, such as translation teaching, translation studies and translation criticism. Furthermore, his translation view emphasizes the pursuit for pure Chinese and rejects the prevailing westernized Chinese, which has certain warning effect on the serious translationese in modern translation. Whereas, deeply subjected to Chinese traditional literary theories, Tsai’s translation view just involves in many translation skills but lacks theoretical support, thus becoming an object of public denunciation. Nevertheless, Tsai’s thought on translation criticism is rooted in Chinese traditional culture, and will contribute a lot to guiding translation practice after its systematization and theorization. This is of great value for the theoretical construction of modern Chinese translation criticism.The study selects Tsai’s comment on excerpts of five famous classic translations by means of his impressionist criticism as the research object. Then, through the analyses of these comments, features of his thought on translation criticism could be summarized and their underlying theoretical basis and principles will also be explored. The study propose two research questions:1. What is Tsai’s tendency and principles reflected in his comments of the Classic translated literary works?2. What is the theoretical basis of Tsai’s translation criticism?All his comments on five translated works can be classified into two kinds: comments on the language and comments on non-linguistic content. Based on Tsai’s own standard for translation criticism and German translation scholar Wolfram Wilss’s theoretical framework for studying translation criticism, the comments on language can be sub-classified into four kinds, appropriate, correct, inappropriate and incorrect, which constitutes a cline from the most appropriate to the least appropriate. And then according to the object of comments, these comments can also be classified into word translation, sentence translation, translation strategy and undetermined category. Through the classification and comparison, Tsai’s translation criticism shows two trends as follows:1. Tsai’s comments on the excerpts from the five translated works mainly concentrate on the words and sentence and make the translation strategy and translator’s accomplishment and other translation problems subsidiary.2. Tsai tends to commend the translation and rarely puts forward any negative criticism, which is mainly due to the fact that all these versions are translated by famous and competent professional translators. However, he does proposes many different opinions on Fu Donghua’s translation of Gone with the Wind.According to the results of qualitative and quantitative analysis, the principles of Tsai’s translation criticism can be concluded after systematic summary.Finally, the study explores the causes for the formation of Tsai’s translation criticism, summarizes the theoretical basis underlying his translation criticism, and meanwhile attempts to propose the theoretical framework of Tsai’s translation criticism for the purpose of providing some references for future literary translation criticism.
【Key words】 Translation Studies; Frederick Tsai; comment; translation criticism;