试用读者反应检验奈达功能对等理论的可操作性

On Feasibility of Testing Nida's Functional Equivalence from the Aspect of Readers' Responses

读者反应的收集和检测是验证奈达功能对等理论的关键。运用奈达提出的抽词法对《傲慢与偏见》第一章的原文和不同版本中译文的读者进行问卷调查,并对比不同读者的反应,可以验证就文章的可懂性而言,原文本与译本之间的对等是可以部分实现的,从而证明从读者反应角度来检测奈达翻译理论中的对等是可行的。

Collecting and testing readers＇ responses isthe key point of Nida＇s equivalence theory. Based on Nida＇s Cloze Technique, with the original English version and two different Chinese versions of Pride and Prejudice, after questionnaires and comparison of all these readers＇ responses, the paper is to illustrate some degree of equivalence between the source text and the target text can be achieved as far as ease of comprehension is concerned, and it is feasible to test the equivalence in Nida＇s translation theory from the aspect of readers＇ responses.