论小说人物话语再现方式及“足译”

“足译”作为译者追求的最高境界,就是将源语所表达的内容完全忠实地用另一种语言再现出来。源语内容不仅包括语言所表达的认知意义,还包括话语方式的文体价值。译者往往仅注重小说的故事和情节而忽视其话语方式在人物刻画、情节发展、审美价值等方面的重要作用,使得译本停留在再现小说事实这一层面,淡化了应有的文学效果,从而产生“虚假对等”,与“足译”相去甚远。本文从叙述学及小说文体学的角度出发,通过对美国女作家凯特.肖班的长篇小说《觉醒》不同中文译本的对比,分析了人物话语再现方式与小说阅读各角色之间的密切关系,阐述了小说人物话语再现方式对“足译”的影响。

Speech representation is closely related to the characterization, plot development, and even the thematic significance and aesthetic value of a fiction. But when translating fictions, a translator tends to neglect it because of the story itself. Hence we have the “deceptive equivalence”, which is far away from “adequacy of translation”. This paper, based on narratology and fictional stylistics and by contrasting different translations of The Awakening, a novel by American woman writer Kate Chopin, analyzes the importance of speech representation in translating fictions and demonstrates the impact made on “adequacy of translation” on account of the translator＇s negligence of speech representation.