从关联翻译理论视角管窥翻译过程的特点

A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Features of the Translating Process

本文在G u tt的关联翻译理论的框架内,对翻译过程中译者的思维运作特点进行了尝试性的概括与总结:关联性、动态性、不确定性。这三个特点是相互依赖、相互联系、密不可分的。与原文作者的信息意图和交际意图没有任何关联性的译文是失败的。在关联性的观照下,原文作者传达的明示刺激、原文认知语境、译者在大脑中对作者意图的加工处理、译者对译文读者的认知语境和他们的审美期待与接受能力的了解、以及译者的综合素质等的互动过程,使具有不确定性特点的翻译过程自始至终处于动态的运作之中。

The present paper, within the framework of Relevance--Theoretic Approach to Translation proposed by Gutt, makes a tentative generalization of the features of the translating process： relevancy, dynamics and indeterminacy in the working of the translator＇s mind. These features are interrelated and interdependent. Any renderings without relevance to the author＇s informative intention and communicative intention can be considered as a failure. With the principle of relevance as guidance, it is the casual interaction between the original stimuli, source cognitive environment, the translator＇s processing of the author＇s intentions, his knowledge of target cognitive environment and receptor audience＇s aesthetic expectations and acceptability level, as well as his aesthetic qualities that make indeterminate translating process dynamic.