摘要
翻译活动是一种跨文化交际,涉及两种语言和文化。汉译外的过程也就是传播中华文化的过程。如何有效地传播中华文化,使中华文化易于、乐于为目的语读者所接受,这是译者面对的重大问题。以礼貌现象为例,结合《红楼梦》霍译本,从称呼语、请求语等方面探讨跨文化交际中的礼貌差异。汉语文学作品的外译,应考虑目的语文化与读者的接受,顺应目的语文化的意识形态,包括礼貌方面的需要,进行适当的改写。如果过分强调对原著的忠实,译文与普通读者的阅读期待相差太大,势必难以满足其审美需求,导致阅读行为的终止和跨文化交际的失败。
Translation is an act of cross-cultural communication involving two languages and cultures. To translate Chinese into a foreign language is to spread Chinese culture. One of the major issues the translator has to address is how to spread Chinese culture effectively so that it could be readily and agreeably acceptable to the target reader. This paper attempts to examine the strategy of rewriting of linguistic politeness as found in the Story of the Stone by David Hawkes and John Minford. When it comes to the translation of Chinese literary works, we have to adequately rewrite the source text, taking into account the reception of the target reader and the ideological and poetological demands of the target culture. Too much foreignization or too much emphasis on fidelity, which fails to meet the ordinary reader＇s reading expectations or his aesthetic demands, is most likely to incur the termination of the reading act and the failure of cultural dissemination.
出处
《英语研究》
2014年第2期38-44,共7页
English Studies
基金
广东省高等学校引进专项资项目"汉语典籍礼貌语言翻译研究--以<红楼梦>为例"(项目编号:182068)
暨南大学科研启动资金项目(项目编号:50403492)的资助
关键词
礼貌
差异
改写
意识形态
rewriting
linguistic politeness
ideology
poetics
