The Translation of Teahouse from the Pragmatic Perspective

论文摘要

戏剧翻译是文学翻译的一个分支,戏剧中的人物对话是交际性对话,其语言的特征决定了戏剧的翻译标准不同于诗歌、小说等其它文体的翻译标准。戏剧翻译使得某戏剧作品从一国舞台搬到另一国舞台上,而能否让目标语观众获得与源语观众同等的观感对戏剧翻译提出了更高的要求。语用学是研究语言在交际中的理解和使用的学科。语用分析与戏剧翻译有着天然的切合点,从语用学的角度来学习和研究戏剧翻译无疑为译者提供了一个新的视角。本文以语用学中的一个重要理论—会话含义作为理论框架,运用语用学中的合作原则和礼貌原则,试探性地分析了戏剧语言中的会话含义,即违反合作原则(量准则、质准则、关联准则和方式准则)所产生的会话含义的翻译和遵守礼貌原则所产生的会话含义的翻译。戏剧以对话为主要形式,如何等效传递舞台语言的会话含义是戏剧翻译的关键。目标语文本中选择恰当的翻译策略对于再现人物的会话含义,展现戏剧的魅力,从而让目标语观众获得与源语观众尽可能等效的感受至关重要。因此,目标语文本中能否达到语用等效是会话含义翻译的关键。老舍的著名话剧《茶馆》及英若诚的英文译本是本文的语料来源。通过研究戏剧《茶馆》英译本中会话含义的翻译,本文期望能对译者有所启示:尽管戏剧翻译中无法实现完全对等的会话含义传递,只要译文能够将会话含义较完整的传达给观众,最大限度地达到话剧中会话含义翻译的语用等效,就应该被认为是合适的译文。

论文目录

• Abstract（in Chinese）
• Abstract（in English）
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter One Introduction
• 1.1 A Brief Introduction to Lao She and His Teahouse
• 1.2 A Brief Survey of Ying Ruocheng's Life and His Achievements
• 1.3 Research Background
• 1.4 Research Questions
• 1.5 Objective and Methodology
• 1.6 The Structure of the Thesis
• Chapter Two Pragmatics and Translation
• 2.1 The Development of Pragmatics
• 2.2 The Application of Pragmatic Theory to Translation
• 2.2.1 Pragmatics and Communication
• 2.2.2 Translation and Communication
• 2.3 Conversational lmplicature and Cooperative Principle
• 2.4 Conversational Implicature and Politeness Principle
• 2.5 The Present Situation of Study on This Subject
• Chapter Three Translation of Conversational Implicature in Drama
• 3.1 General Introduction to Drama Translation
• 3.1.1 The Characteristics of Drama Translation
• 3.1.2 Importance of the Translation of Conversational Implicature in Drama
• 3.2 Pragmatic Equivalence in the Translation of Conversational Implicature in Drama
• 3.3 Scholars' Contributions in This Subject in China and Abroad
• Chapter Four Translation of Conversational Implicature in Teahouse
• 4.1 The Conversational Implicature and the Maxims of Cooperative Principle
• 4.1.1 Translation of Conversational Implicature from Flouting of Quantity Maxim
• 4.1.2 Translation of Conversational Implicature from Flouting of Quality Maxim
• 4.1.3 Translation of Conversational Implicature from Flouting of Relevance Maxim
• 4.1.4 Translation of Conversational Implicature from Flouting of Manner Maxim
• 4.2 Translation of Conversational Implicature with Regard to Gu's Politeness Principle
• 4.2.1 Translation of Conversational Implicature with Regard to Self-denigration
• 4.2.2 Translation of Conversational Implicature with Regard to Addressing Terms
• Chapter Five Effective Ways to Achieve Pragmatic Equivalence used in the Translation of Conversational Implicature
• 5.1 Ying Ruocheng's Strategies to the Translation of Conversational Implicature in Teahouse
• 5.1.1 Literal Translation
• 5.1.2 Free translation
• 5.1.3 Explanation
• 5.1.4 Deduction
• 5.1.5 Adaptation
• 5.1.6 Compensation
• 5.2 The Importance of Context Knowledge in the Translation of Conversational Implicature
• 5.3 Summary
• Chapter Six Conclusion
• Works Cited