翻译中文化身份的解构和建构

Deconstruction and Construction of Cultural Identities in Translation

翻译是跨文化交流的桥梁,在联系源文和译文的过程中,它同时解构和建构双方的文化身份。通过研究翻译过程中的解构成分和建构成分,以及解构和建构的过程,可以得出解构和建构之间的关系是相互作用的,而源文的解构和译文的建构都不是绝对的。虽然每种文化都有其独特的文化身份,这种独特之处也只是相对的,仅明显地表现在文化的核心区域。在与其他文化接触交融的边缘地带,其实更多地体现出的是文化的共同之处,而翻译各个过程之间的关系实际上是翻译中文化相对性的表现。

Translation is the bridge of cross-culture communication. In the course of connecting the source text and target text, it both deconstructs and constructs the cultural identities of both parties. By studying constructed and deconstructed elements in the trans- lation process, and the process of deconstruetion and construction, it can be argued that the relationship between deconstmction and construction is reciprocal, and the deconstruction of the source text and the construction of the target text are not absolute. Every cul- ture owes its unique cultural identity, though, such uniqueness is relative, and represents itself only in the central area of that culture. In the peripheral fields that are interwoven with other cultures, what is more likely to be demonstrated is their common point. The relation between various processes of translation is just the representation of the relativity of cultural identities in translation.