中医药说明书的翻译 ——交际翻译法

论文摘要

作为中国传统文化的一部分,中医有3000年的历史。它伴随中国悠久的历史诞生并发展,它是中国人民同时也是世界人民的宝贵财富。在这个充满生机的新世纪,中医的发展遇到前所未有的机遇和挑战。中医药各种产品的出口在最近几年有巨大的增长,中国的中医药界也全面实行了国际发展战略,对中医进行了大至普通群众小至医务人员的对外宣传和介绍,推动中医国际化发展的进程。然而,中医药的发展仍遇到了多种阻碍,以中医药的出口来说,就遇到了一个发展的瓶颈问题,2006年的统计数字表明,美国食品安全局扣留了大量的中国出口药品,居各种被扣留货物种类的第二位,对7种药品被扣留原因进行分析,发现药品包装,标签,说明书不符合美国FDA的要求与规定是主要原因之一。美国FDA扣留的中药和中成药占被扣留总药品批次的73.1%。目前,毫无规范或错漏百出的英译说明书已经成为制约出口的瓶颈。因此,中医药说明书的翻译应该受到各部门的足够重视。从2007年上半年起,作者收集了一些带有英文翻译的中医药说明书,发现了诸如误译,硬译,过于罗嗦,和漏译等问题,因而在本篇论文中将主要讨论以上诸多问题,并结合自己的翻译实践,对中医药说明书的翻译进行了实验性的探讨。鉴于说明书的特殊文体特征及其特定的交际目的,笔者以为,用Peter Newmark的交际翻译法指导中医药说明书的翻译,能在很大程度上保证译文的通顺流畅,从而帮助国外消费者了解中医药的性状与功能,刺激他们的消费欲望,进而达到促进出口之目的。

论文目录

• Abstract
• 摘要
• Table of Contents
• Chapter Ⅰ Introduction
• 1.1 Rationale and Significance of the Research
• 1.2 Research Questions
• 1.3 Research Methodology and Data Collection
• 1.4 Organization of the Thesis
• Chapter Ⅱ Literature review
• 2.1 A Review of the Translation of TCM Terminology
• 2.2 A Review of the Translation of the TCM Booklets of Direction
• Chapter Ⅲ Theoretical framework
• 3.1 The Priorities for the Text Analysis
• 3.2 Communicative Translation versus Semantic Translation
• Chapter Ⅳ Applying Communicative Translation to TCM Booklets of Direction
• 4.1 About the Translation of the Drug Names in TCM Booklets of Direction
• 4.1.1 Features of the Drug Names of the TCM Booklets of Direction
• 4.1.1.1 Various Medical Forms Exhibited in the TCM Drug Names
• 4.1.1.2 Different Approaches for the Choice of the Drug Names
• 4.1.2 About the Translation of the Drug Names in the TCM Booklets of Direction
• 4.1.2.1 Problems in the Translation of the TCM Drug Names in the Booklets of Direction
• 4.1.2.2 Principle Guiding the Communicative Translation of the Drug Names in the TCM Booklets of Direction
• 4.2 About the Translation of TCM Terminology in the Booklets of Direction
• 4.2.1 Features of TCM Medical Terms
• 4.2.2 Translation of TCM Terms in the TCM Booklets of Direction
• 4.2.2.1 Different Approaches in the Translation of TCM Terms
• 4.2.2.2 Communicative Translation of TCM Terms in the TCM Booklets of Direction
• 4.3 About the Format of the Translated TCM Booklets of Direction
• Chapter Ⅴ Conclusion
• 5.1 A Summary of the research
• 5.2 Implications and suggestions of the research
• 5.3 Iimitation of the research
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements