中文小说英译的译者工作模式分析

The Development of Translators' Working Patterns in Rendering Chinese Fictions into English

早期中文小说英译时,译者群体尚未职业化,工作方式呈"个人主义"色彩。随着中西文化交流日益频繁,从事中文小说英译的群体逐渐扩大,不仅合译的案例增加,还出现了集体翻译、作者译者合作等情况。译介活动中各行动者之间协同互动,译者的工作模式总体呈多样化和网络化发展。本文讨论译者与译者、译者与作者、译者与机构等几组关系,梳理译者工作模式的发展过程,探索它对翻译策略和译文效果的影响,这有助于对翻译过程和译者类型等问题的研究。

In the early period of rendering Chinese fictions into English, most translators pursued other employment and only translated on individual basis during leisure time. With growing exchange between China and the rest of the world, more and more people are engaged in such translation activities, and we see increasing number of co-translations, collective translations, and cases of author-translator cooperation. Different agents actively relate with each other and the translating patterns have become more diversified and Interaetive. Dealing with the relationship between translators, translator and author, translator and institution, this paper delineates the development of translators＇ working patterns. The author explores how working patterns influence translation strategies and potential effects of the target texts, in an attempt to shed light on further researches of translation process and translator types.