全球化时代的文化研究和翻译研究

Cultural Studies and Translation Studies in the Age of Globalization

本文基于全球化的广阔视野，探讨了当今时代的经济全球化给文化及其翻译可能带来的正反两方面的影响，并试图从文化研究的理论视角入手，对传统的翻译之定义作出新的阐释。有鉴于翻译的文化传播特征，作者主张将翻译研究纳入文化研究的大语境之下，这样有助于作为一门介于人文、社会科学以及自然科学的边缘学料的翻译学的学科定位。作者认为，作为中外文化交流的重要传播工具，目前的翻译重点应从外译中逐步转向中译外，只有这样，才有助于中国文化在全球化的时代保持其固有的文化身份和特征。

On the broad horizon of globalization, the present essay explores the issue of globalization in the current age and its positive and negative effect on culture and its translation. It tries to offer a new interpretation of the traditional definition of translation from the theoretical perspective of Culforal Studies. In view of the characteristics of cultural communication translation bears, the author proposes to do translation studies in the broad context of Cultrual Studies, which might well help locatetranslatology as a marginal discipline between humanities, socialscience and natural science. To the author, translation, as an important means in China's international cultural exchange, should focus on translating Chinese into foreign languages rather than vice versa. Only in this way can Chinese culture preserve its cultural identity in the age of globalization.