语篇信息性：英汉互译理论新思维——基于整合视角的分析

Informativity:A New Interface for Integrating Linguistically and Culturally-oriented Translation Theories

20世纪70年代伊始,翻译理论研究突破原先单一语言学派的局限,转而向多维性和文化研究方向拓展,继而演进成为语言学派和文化学派双峰并峙的态势。这一变革在开阔翻译理论探求视域、丰富翻译学界研究内容的同时、也对建构协调、统一的翻译学科产生了负面影响。鉴此,整合两大学派旗下翻译理论的研究成果,促成它们在统一的学科框架内兼容并蓄、优势互补,已然是翻译学界不容回避和亟待探讨的重大课题之一。本文拟以语篇信息性为出发点、结合英汉语际翻译的固有特质,旨在揭明如何建构英汉互译理论新的平台,以及语言、文化流派旗下翻译理论研究成果的整合问题。

The emergence of the culturally-oriented model of translation has put an end to the linguistically-oriented model's monopoly on translation studies.Whereas the two paradigms' coexistence tends to broaden theoretical horizons for scholars working in this field,their incompatibility has caused a split among these scholars and undermined the cohesion of their discipline. How to reintegrate the two and to render them complimentary to each other has thus posed a major challenge to translation scholars.This paper argues that the concept of informativity,taken from text linguistics,has the potential of serving as an interface for the two otherwise incongruous approaches.