【作者】 李颖；

【导师】 卢志宏；

【作者基本信息】 安徽大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2016， 硕士

【摘要】 作为功能派翻译理论中最重要的理论,目的论强调翻译目的是一切翻译行为的首要出发点。翻译过程中,译者应采取合适的翻译方法与策略,以确保译文的预期功能得以充分实现。目的论框架下,原文不再是神圣不可侵犯的,判断译文质量的标准不再是原文和译文间是否对等,而是依据译文是否充分实现了翻译的预期目的。由此可见,目的论使翻译摆脱了等效论的束缚,为翻译理论研究提供了一个新视角,并对具体翻译实践具有重要的指导意义本文以功能派目的论为理论框架,以《红楼梦》王际真复译本(1958)为研究对象,统计分析了王译本在句子,段落,章节层次及诗歌翻译过程中的省译现象,并试图从读者期待,委托人要求,诗学主张,中国新红学影响等方面探讨省译现象背后的成因。经分析发现,英译《红楼梦》的过程中,王际真致力于描写林黛玉与贾宝玉之间的爱情故事,而省译了许多与二者爱情故事无关或具有深厚文化内涵而晦涩难懂的部分。省译现象的成因可从以下四个方面进行解释。首先,就目标读者而言,由于在英语文化系统中,中国文化处于边缘地位,不受重视,故而,英语读者只将中国经典小说—《红楼梦》看作带有异国风味的爱情故事。而且,目标读者对中国传统文化知之甚少,难以理解原小说中具有深厚文化内涵的内容。第二,就委托人而言,出版公司并没有打算完整地再现《红楼梦》的内容和主旨,而是要求王际真主要描写爱情故事,进行节译,以便更好地满足目标读者的兴趣和阅读期待,保证译本的销售量。第三,就目标文化而言,从亚瑟·韦利和马克·范·多伦为王际真译本所作的序言中可以看出,美国学者只将《红楼梦》当作一本爱情小说,忽略了原小说所传递的深厚的文化内涵及深刻的社会主旨。第四,在《红楼梦》王际真复译本的引言部分,王际真引用了许多新红学的主张。并且,受新红学的影响,王际真认为高鹗所著《红楼梦》后四十回劣于曹雪芹所著的前八十回。故而,在翻译后四十回时,曹雪芹大幅度删减了原文内容。在以上各因素的影响下,王际真英译《红楼梦》,旨在译出一本面向普通英语读者的普通读物。在该翻译目的的指导下,王际真主要描写了林黛玉与贾宝玉之间的爱情故事,省译了原小说中与二者爱情故事无关或具有深厚文化内涵而晦涩难懂的部分,以确保译文更具吸引力,更为通畅易懂。在传统翻译理论看来,《红楼梦》王际真译本是不忠实的,不完整的,故而常被中国学者所忽略。该论文以目的论为理论框架,对《红楼梦》王际真复译本进行分析,有助于促进国内对《红楼梦》王译本的研究,从而使得越来越多的人得以了解王际真及其译本。更多还原

【Abstract】 As the most important theory in the functional school of translation theories, skopos theory emphasizes that the purpose of translation governs the overall translation process in which the translator should adopt appropriate translation methods and strategies to make sure that the intended function of the translated text can be adequately realized. In skopos theory, the source text is no longer sacred or inviolable. The criterion to judge the quality of translation is no longer whether the translated text is equivalent to the source text, but is whether the translated text has adequately fulfilled the intended purpose of translation. Thus skopos theory which makes translation break away from the principle of equivalence provides a new perspective for the research on translation theories and is of great use to guide specific translation practices.This thesis, based on skopos theory makes a case study on the 1958 version of Dream of the Red Chamber produced by Chi-Chen Wang. The thesis makes a thorough analysis of the employment of omission in Chi-Chen Wang’s translation in the aspects of sentences, paragraphs, chapters and poems and then tries to, through analyzing expectations of target readers, requirements of clients, poetics in the target culture and Chinese new redology explore the reasons why many parts are omitted in Chi-Chen Wang’s translated version.According to the findings, in translating Hong Lou Meng, Chi-Chen Wang concentrates on the love story between Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu and omits many other parts that are irrelevant to their love and culture-specific elements that are too hard for target English readers to understand. The reasons of such omission can be explained as follows.First, in terms of target readers, since Chinese culture was not accepted into the core of English literary system, English readers would not treat Hong Lou Meng as a classical novel, but only as a love story with foreign flavor. Moreover, with little knowledge of traditional Chinese culture, they could not understand the culture-specific elements embodied in the original fiction.Second, in terms of the client, the publishing company did not intend to fully introduce Hong Lou Meng, but required Chi-Chen Wang to focus on the love story and make an abridged translation version so as to cater to the interest of target readers and occupy a considerable share in the book market.Third, in terms of target culture, from the two prefaces written by Arthur Waley and Mark Van Doren for Chi-Chen Wang’s translation, we can see that the dominant poetics in target English culture tended to undervalue Hong Lou Meng, consider it only as a love story and neglect the profound social and cultural connotations of the original work.Fourth, under the influence of Chinese new redology, Chi-Chen Wang cites many research results of new redologists in the introduction to Dream of the Red Chamber(1958) and considers the latter 40 chapters by Kao Ou to be inferior to the former 80 chapters by Tsao Hsueh-chin. Therefore, in translating the latter 40 chapters, Chi-Chen Wang omits so many parts that it is more an abstract than a translation.To conclude, under the influence of these factors, Chi-Chen Wang’s translation of Hong Lou Meng is aimed to produce common reading materials that are both attractive and understandable to common English readers. Thus in translating Hong Lou Meng, Chi-Chen Wang concentrates on the love story between Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu and omits many parts irrelevant to their love and many culture-specific elements so as to make his translation both attractive and easy to understand.Chi-Chen Wang’s translation of Hong Lou Meng which is often considered incomplete or unfaithful based on the traditional school of translation theories tends to be neglected by Chinese scholars. Thus this thesis is of great use to stimulate the domestic study of Chi-Chen Wang’s translation of Hong Lou Meng and make more and more people learn about Chi-Chen Wang and his translated work.更多还原