冲突——翻译伦理模式理论再思考

Conflicts——Second Thought on Models of Translational Ethics

借鉴西方翻译伦理学研究成果构建中国翻译伦理学是当今中国翻译学的主要发展趋势之一。在西方翻译伦理学诸流派中,由翻译的再现伦理、服务伦理、交际伦理、规范伦理和承诺伦理构建的翻译伦理模式理论对中国翻译伦理学的发展影响最大,以至于国内翻译界出现了要以该理论为基础构建中国翻译伦理学的呼声。但该理论的前四种伦理在服务主体、主体定位和译者定位三个维度上的冲突导致它们互不兼容,旨在融合四种翻译伦理的承诺伦理也未能解决兼容性问题。因此,以翻译伦理模式为基础构建中国翻译伦理学的设想并不可行。

One of the major trends in the translating study in China is drawing inspiration from western trans- lational ethics and constructing Chinese translational ethics. Among the western schools of translational ethics, theory of models of translation ethics constituted by translational ethics of representation, of service, of communication, norm-based translational ethics and translational ethics of commitment gives such inspiration to the construction of Chinese translational ethics that there comes from the circle of translation in China the voice of formulating Chinese translation ethics on the basis of this theory. It is discovered that the first four models of translational ethics contradict each other in what interest group they should serve most, in what sta- tus they should confer on each of the translation agents but the translator and in what status they should confer on the translator. Translational ethics of commitment, with the purpose of integrating four preceding models of translational ethics can not solve the problem of incompatibility between the four translational ethics. Therefore, theory of models of translational ethics, though beneficial to the construction of Chinese trans- lational ethics, can not act as the basis of this construction.