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典籍翻译的历史文化语境重构

Historico-cultural Recontextualization in Translating Ancient Chinese Classics

【作者】 王旭

【导师】 田传茂;

【作者基本信息】 长江大学 , 外国语言学及应用语言学, 2021, 硕士

【副题名】苏古柏《楚辞》译本个案研究

【摘要】 楚辞,亦称骚体或楚辞体,是以战国时期屈原为代表的诗人所创造的一种文体。西汉刘向将屈原、宋玉等人的作品辑成《楚辞》,这是我国文学史上的第一部浪漫主义诗歌总集。《楚辞》作品感情奔放,想象奇特,具有浓郁的楚国地方特色,且创作年代久远,故这些作品不易理解。要想将《楚辞》这一文学典籍有效翻译传播出去,重构其历史文化语境必不可少且至关重要,而目前尚未有研究者对《楚辞》翻译中的历史文化语境重构展开研究。本文以苏古柏的《楚辞》译本为研究对象,基于深度翻译和副文本理论,构建典籍翻译中语境重构的理论模型,并整合量化研究与质性研究,分析《楚辞》苏译本中重构的历史文化语境类型及其重构策略,探讨典籍翻译的可行路径,以期对中华文化典籍的外译有所启示。研究结果发现,《楚辞》苏译本中重构的历史文化语境类型包括自然风光重构、技术与工艺重构、信仰与习俗重构、政治环境重构以及宇宙意识重构,重构策略则包括引言、导语、尾注、附录等副文本策略以及译文本身所运用的一些策略,例如直译、意译、音译等。总体来看,苏译《楚辞》有效地、多维度地重构了原作的历史文化语境,这既得益于译者灵活运用各种副文本策略和文本策略,又得益于译者对《楚辞》和楚文化长期的、系统的、动态的研究。我们认为,这种“研译结合”的翻译模式对典籍的翻译具有一定的借鉴意义。

【Abstract】 Chuci,also known as Sao style and Chuci style,is a genre created by Qu Yuan and other poets in the Warring States period.In the Western Han dynasty,Liu Xiang collected the works of Qu Yuan,Song Yu and others in the anthology entitled “Chu ci”.This is the first anthology of romantic poems in the history of Chinese literature.The works of the Chu ci are characterized by strong feelings,vivid imagination,and Chu’s landscape,customs,and practices,which are exotic for foreign readers.In addition,these poems were created about two thousand years ago.Therefore,it is not easy to understand the canon.To translate and disseminate the Chu ci effectively and successfully,it is necessary and vital to conduct historico-cultural recontextualization,but no researcher has so far studied the reconstruction of historical and cultural contexts in the field of translation studies of the Chu ci.Taking Gopal Sukhu’s The Songs of Chu as the object of study and integrating quantitative research and qualitative research,the author of this thesis formulates a theoretical model for recontextualizing ancient classics in translation based on thick translation and paratextual theories,analyzes the types of historico-cultural recontextualization and recontextualizing strategies used in Sukhu’s translation,and explores the practicable translation mode of ancient classics with the goal to enlighten the translation of ancient Chinese classics.The research findings show that the original picturesque landscape,technology and craft,beliefs and customs,political environment and cosmological consciousness are adequately reconstructed in the target text(TT)via use of various paratexts,such as introductions,notes and the appendix,as well as some strategies employed in the translation proper such as literal translation,free translation and transliteration.Taken as a whole,the multi-dimensional and successful historico-cultural recontextualization of Sukhu’s The Song of Chu owes much to the translator’s flexible application of various paratextual strategies together with textual strategies and his continuing,systematic and dynamic studies on the Chu ci and Chu culture.It can be argued that the mode of combining research and translation which is characterized by thick translation is a feasible way for the translation of ancient Chinese classics.

  • 【网络出版投稿人】 长江大学
  • 【网络出版年期】2022年 08期
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