关联理论视角下译者的隐形与显形 ——《边城》英译本案例研究

论文摘要

近几年,译者和翻译理论家越来越意识到文化交流和传播的重要性,也正因此,强调保存异国语言文化差异的劳伦斯·韦努蒂的阻抗式翻译策略得到了越来越多的关注。韦努蒂的翻译理论挑战在翻译史上占主流地位的归化的翻译策略和译者隐身的翻译思想。为了让译者显形,他提出了阻抗式的异化翻译策略,希望能保存异国文本中的语言和文化特色。归化与异化之争也从那开始达到了高潮。但是,在两个流派中,归化与异化是对立的,很难达到一个统一和谐的共存状态。本文通过对韦努蒂的观点的探讨性研究,重点阐述了译者的显形与隐形在很大程度上取决于译者本身的翻译思想和策略的归属,即归化与异化的选择。然而译者的隐形与显形问题只是一个程度问题,没有评判标准,因此本文引入关联理论这一个语言学视角,希望借由关联理论的最佳关联来指导译者的隐形与显形,即归化与异化这两种翻译策略,的对立与统一问题。本文作者试图把关联理论应用在文学翻译中,重点关注关联理论对文学作品中的文化缺省的解释力及其对翻译策略选择的指导价值,以此证明关联理论能指导文学翻译,并且说明一个翻译作品优秀与否的判断标准是译文与原文是否达到了最佳关联。通过把归化和异化这两个翻译策略在翻译过程中有机结合,原文文本,特别是其中的文化内涵能更好地传达给译文读者。同时,译者也能发挥最大的主观能动性,达到让自己显形的目的。

论文目录

• 摘要
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Background and Significance of the Research
• 1.2 Research Methodology
• 1.3 Layout of the Thesis
• 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 Debates on the Translation Strategy in China
• 2.2 Debates on the Translation Strategy in the West
• 2.3 Summary
• 2.4 A Review of Relevance Theoretic Approach
• 3 Theoretical Backgrounds
• 3.1 A Briefing on Domestication and Foreignization
• 3.1.1 Domestication
• 3.1.2 Foreignization
• 3.2 Venuti’s Translation Theory
• 3.2.1 Invisibility and Visibility of the Translator
• 3.2.2 Contributions and Limits of Venuti’s Resistant Translation Strategy and Foreignization
• 3.3 The Relevance Theory
• 3.3.1 General Introduction of the Relevance Theory
• 3.3.2 Main Concepts of the Relevance Theory
• 3.3.3 Application of Relevance Theory to Translation
• 4 A Probe into the Translator’s Invisibility and Visibility from the Perspective of the Relevance Theory
• 4.1 Translation Strategies Characterized by the Invisibility and the Visibility of the Translator
• 4.1.1 Domestication Aims at the Translator’s Invisibility
• 4.1.2 Foreignization Aims at the Translator’s Visibility
• 4.1.3 Integration of Invisibility and Visibility of the Translator from the Perspective of Domestication and Foreignization
• 4.2 The Power of RT in Interpreting Cultural Default
• 4.2.1 The Cultural Default in Translation
• 4.2.2 The Application of RT in Dealing with the Cultural Default
• 4.3 The Choice of Translation Strategies in Accordance with RT
• 5 A Case Study of the English Translation of the Border Town
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.1.1 A Brief Introduction of the Border Town and the Author
• 5.1.2 A Brief Introduction of its English Translation and the Translator
• 5.2 A Case Study
• 5.2.1 A Relevance-theoretic Account of Foreignization
• 5.2.2 A Relevance-theoretic Account of Domestication
• 5.2.3 A Relevance-theoretic Account of the Combination of Foreignization and Domestication
• 6 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Academic Achievements
• Acknowledgements