论罗宾逊“翻译的躯体学”

On Robinson's Somatics of Translation

翻译研究经历了由"文本独白"到"译者独白"再到目前"文化独白"的转向。译者虽然由原语文化可以自由穿透的玻璃球变成了译语文化可以自由穿越的玻璃球,但译者认知过程中的个体体验在翻译研究中依然缺席,译者依然仅仅是一个没有躯体体验的主体。美国译论家罗宾逊把翻译中既是载体又是感性存在的译者"躯体"引入翻译研究中,不仅为较为空泛、抽象的译者主体提供了实质性的基础,也为后现代语境下颠覆原文同一性的行为找到草根性的发轫点。

Translation study goes through ＂text monologue＂ to ＂translator＇ s monologue＂ and to ＂cultural monologue＂. Although translator turns from being a crystal ball by which the original finally cuhure can unrestrainedly penetrate into another crystal ball by which the target culture can freely traverse, the translator＇s personal embodiment, in the process of cognitive act, is still absent in translation studies. Translators are still subjects without body or simply disembodied subjects. Douglas Robinson, an American translation theorist, introduces into the translation study the somatic being of a translator that is both an agent and an emotional feeler in the translational act. As a result, he not only provides translator＇s hallow and abstract subjectivity with an embodied foundation, but also provides a primitive starting-point for the subversion of the original works＇ identity in the context of post-modernism.