摘要
认知心理学家及心理语言学家认为,人们在阅读后的最终心理效果为建立相应的心理表征。心理表征由概念结构构成,读者阅读文本后可建立不同层次的心理表征:宏观的心理表征如文体风格、文本类型的表征;句子层面的表征如概念范畴、言语行为、语域、语气等。因而译者翻译时应顺应源语及目的语认知习惯,使译文读者阅读后建立与原文读者最相似的心理表征。这种基于心理表征的视角对翻译时尚用语、语义结构复杂的语句、诗歌等有较强的解释力。
According to psycholinguists and cognitive psychologists, human final comprehension of language is building a corresponding mental representation of what has been read. Mental representation is made up of conceptual constituents. After reading, several layers of mental representation can be left in readers＇ mind： a level of micro mental representation on the stylistic and text-type information, a level of sentence representation encompassing conceptual categories, speech acts, register, moods and etc. Thus, while translating, the translator should adapt to source language and target language cognitive environments so that target language readers could build the most similar mental representation as that of source language readers. Mental representation approach can well explain the translation of some fashion terms, semantically complex sentences, and poetry.
关键词
心理表征
语言理解
翻译标准
mental representation
language comprehension
translationcriteria
