1994年至2002年间,香港中文大学出版社陆续出版了约翰.登特-杨和阿莱克斯.登特-杨父子合译的五卷本英译《水浒传》(The Marshes of Mount Liang)。本文从历史文化语境、翻译体制、翻译价值取向、翻译策略与方法四个维度对这一新译本进...1994年至2002年间,香港中文大学出版社陆续出版了约翰.登特-杨和阿莱克斯.登特-杨父子合译的五卷本英译《水浒传》(The Marshes of Mount Liang)。本文从历史文化语境、翻译体制、翻译价值取向、翻译策略与方法四个维度对这一新译本进行了考察,认为后殖民语境下的登译《水浒传》体现了译者对目的语读者阅读期待的主动迎合,反映了西方意识形态的价值取向,在翻译策略上表现为典型的改写和透明翻译。展开更多
The production of Anglophone texts by postcolonial writers has often raised the issue of translation.This article argues that the transformation of English in the postcolonial text may be seen as a form of‘inner tran...The production of Anglophone texts by postcolonial writers has often raised the issue of translation.This article argues that the transformation of English in the postcolonial text may be seen as a form of‘inner translation’in which the text is both source and target.More importantly the postcolonial author produces a culturally signifi cant text by various strategies of appropriation and transformation that act as metonymic of the source culture.Such strategies produce what may be called the‘metonymic gap’,that cultural distance established within the text by the second language author.The article suggests that Gumbrecht’s term stimmung conveys that sense of the untranslatability of cultural difference that becomes installed in the text by the metonymic gap.It is through these strategies that the postcolonial author can convey a sense of cultural difference to a world anglophone audience,combining communicability with cultural distance.展开更多
文摘1994年至2002年间,香港中文大学出版社陆续出版了约翰.登特-杨和阿莱克斯.登特-杨父子合译的五卷本英译《水浒传》(The Marshes of Mount Liang)。本文从历史文化语境、翻译体制、翻译价值取向、翻译策略与方法四个维度对这一新译本进行了考察,认为后殖民语境下的登译《水浒传》体现了译者对目的语读者阅读期待的主动迎合,反映了西方意识形态的价值取向,在翻译策略上表现为典型的改写和透明翻译。
文摘The production of Anglophone texts by postcolonial writers has often raised the issue of translation.This article argues that the transformation of English in the postcolonial text may be seen as a form of‘inner translation’in which the text is both source and target.More importantly the postcolonial author produces a culturally signifi cant text by various strategies of appropriation and transformation that act as metonymic of the source culture.Such strategies produce what may be called the‘metonymic gap’,that cultural distance established within the text by the second language author.The article suggests that Gumbrecht’s term stimmung conveys that sense of the untranslatability of cultural difference that becomes installed in the text by the metonymic gap.It is through these strategies that the postcolonial author can convey a sense of cultural difference to a world anglophone audience,combining communicability with cultural distance.
