摘要
随着汉英公示语的普及,对公示语翻译的研究引起了越来越多的研究者关注。公示语是应用性很强的感召类文本,具有提示、警告、警示、劝导、感染等功能。公示语的翻译重在语用功能对等以及达到与原文相同的交际目的。本文基于语用翻译理论,探讨了公示语翻译中的语用等效现象,指出当前公示语汉英翻译中存在的信息累赘、文化误译、对原文语用意图的曲解以及用词中式思维等问题。译者应在语用等效的前提下,灵活处理原文,使译文地道、自然,符合目标语的语言规范和文化心理。
English translation of public signs has been attracting the attention among the scholars. Public signs be-long to vocative texts, which are used to direct, prompt, warn, persuade or motivate readers. Therefore, translation of public signs should be focused on achieving equivalent pragmatic function and communicative purpose. Based on the pragmatic translation theories, this paper discusses the typical mistranslation of public signs ,＇ including informa- tion redundancy, cultural inappropriateness, misunderstanding of the source version＇ s pragmatic meaning and Chinglish expressions. In translating public signs, translators should render the source text flexibly and the ren-dered version should be natural, idiomatic and culturally appropriate.
出处
《西南石油大学学报（社会科学版）》
2013年第4期109-114,共6页
Journal of Southwest Petroleum University(Social Sciences Edition)
基金
国家民委2012年度科研项目"西部民族地区旅游景点公示语英语翻译规范化研究"
中南民族大学英语语言学及应用语言学研究基金资助项目
关键词
公示语
汉英翻译
语用语言等效
社交语用等效
语用失效
public signs
Chinese-English translation
pragma-linguistic equivalence
socio-pragmatic equivalence
pragmatic failure
