浅谈黑人英语的汉译——从《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》三译本比较的视角

A Tentative Study on Chinese Translation of Black English——An Analysis of Three Chinese Versions of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

黑人英语是一种特殊的语言变体,在语音、语法等方面具有自身的特征及规律性。翻译中应如何再现黑人英语的特色和作用一直是困扰着学者们的一个问题。美国著名作家马克.吐温的传世之作《哈克贝利.费恩历险记》是一部用生动、地道的口语和方言描绘真实美国的作品。它最大的特点是人物语言的口语化及大量采用方言、土语。其中黑人英语的使用更是生动地刻画了黑人吉姆这一形象。本文旨在通过对《哈克贝利.费恩历险记》三译本的比较,初步探讨黑人英语的汉译问题。

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a famous novel by the well-known American novelist Mark Twain. One of the main features of this novel is the use of colloquial language, dialects and black English, especially the use of black English to vividly describe one of the main characters-Jim. Black English is a kind of language variety with its systematic phonological and grammatical features, which puts a great challenge to translators. How to reproduce the features and functions of Black English in translation is a question unresolved. This paper, based on the analysis of three Chinese versions of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, aims to give a tentative study on the translation of Black English into Chinese.