民事判决书英译本中译者创造性的表现及制约：语篇信息视角

论文摘要

本文采用语料库分析研究方法,旨在从语篇信息视角分析研究中国民事判决书中译者创造性的表现形式及制约因素。本文从法律语篇信息处理系统语料库中抽取61份英汉双语语料,从信息元素及语言两个层面对所选语料进行对比分析。根据数据分析,本研究结果表明,在信息层面上译者创造性主要体现在四个方面:信息移位,信息增加,信息减少和信息更替。在语言层面上,译者的创造性在词汇,句法及语篇方面均有体现。在词汇方面表现为词汇移位,迂回,转换。在句法方面表现为:修饰语,连接词和主题化的变更。在语篇方面表现为替代和连接性连词的增减。本文也分析了造成上述变化的原因,并借助阐释学和文努蒂的归化异化思想探讨了制约译者创造性的因素。英汉语言对词性变化,词序和虚词的不同偏好制约着译者的语言表述。英汉法律传统的差异造成英美判决书格式和语言风格不同。如何在翻译中体现中国法律体系的特色直接制约译者的翻译策略。本文的研究为法律翻译提供了有效的研究方法和理论基础,并对法律翻译评估有一定指导意义。

论文目录

• ABSTRACT
• 摘要
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Status quo of legal translation studies
• 1.2 Rationale of the present study
• 1.3 Research questions
• 1.4 Research methodology and data collection
• 1.5 Organization of the present study
• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Prior studies on discourse information
• 2.2.1 Information and discourse information
• 2.2.2 Information structure of language
• 2.3 Prior studies on translator's subjectivity
• 2.3.1 Philosophical studies on subjectivity
• 2.3.2 Translation studies on subjectivity
• 2.4 Prior studies on legal translation
• 2.4.1 Studies on legal language
• 2.4.2 Studies on legal typology
• 2.4.3 Studies on Hermeneutics in legal discourse
• 2.5 Summary
• Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Theoretical background for the present study
• 3.2.1 Analytical facility
• 3.2.2 Explanatory facilities
• 3.3 Analytical framework
• 3.4 Specific procedures
• 3.5 Summary
• Chapter 4 The Manifestation of Translator's Creativity on the Discourse Information Plane
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Survey and results
• 4.3 Classification of changes
• 4.3.1 Information reordering
• 4.3.2 Information addition
• 4.3.3 Information loss
• 4.3.4 Information substitution
• 4.4 Summary
• Chapter 5 The Manifestation of Translators' Creativity on the Language Plane
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 In the lexical aspect
• 5.2.1 Transposition
• 5.2.2 Expansion
• 5.2.3 Modulation
• 5.3 In the syntactical aspect
• 5.3.1 Modifier
• 5.3.2 Conjunction
• 5.3.3 Thematization
• 5.4 In the discourse aspect
• 5.4.1 Substitution
• 5.4.2 Conjunct
• 5.5 Summary
• Chapter 6 The Constraints on the Translator's Creativity
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Language
• 6.2.1 On the lexical and syntactic levels
• 6.2.2 On the discourse level
• 6.3 Legal culture
• 6.3.1 The formats of two civil judgments
• 6.3.2 Comparison of legal cultures
• 6.3.3 The impact of legal cultures on the styles of judgment
• 6.4 Ideology
• 6.4.1 Domestication
• 6.4.2 Foreignization
• 6.4.3 Domestication or Foreignization
• 6.5 Summary
• Chapter 7 Conclusion
• 7.1 Summary
• 7.2 Conclusions
• 7.3 Implications
• 7.4 Limitations
• References
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS