翻译阅读模式研究——莫言《生死疲劳》英译解读

Two Models of Translation Reading-Reading Mo Yan in English, with Special Reference to Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

翻译叙事文体学采用文体学、叙事学与翻译学结合的理论模式,以语料库作为辅助工具,为翻译研究的深度发展提供了方向。从翻译叙事文体学角度细读莫言《生死疲劳》的双语文本,并考察目标文本的语言,可区分语言学和文化两个层面的特色。对特殊读者(即译者)而言,翻译小说的阅读方法可分为两种:一是以源文本为基础的翻译小说批评法,其下包含叙事学和从传统到后巴别塔的方法,二是历史描述法与对比阅读。个体译者文体应为翻译叙事文体学研究的焦点所在。

The narrotological-stylistic approach to translation reading, which deploys the theoretical frameworks of stylistics, narratology and translation studies assisted by using corpuses as a tool, offers a new direction for translation studies. Through a contrastive study of Mo Yan＇s novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out （English translation by Howard Goldblatt）, which is well-received by Anglophonic readers, it was found that two levels of explication were made use of, i.e. the linguistic and the cultural levels, when exploring the nature of translation fiction from a narrative-stylistic perspective. For translators as special readers of the ST, two models of translation reading were distinguished： （1） a source-based critique of translated fiction, which incorporates the narratological approach and the traditional to post-Babelian approaches; and （2） the historian-describer and comparative reading approaches. The focus of the narratological-stylistic approach to translation studies is on the style of the individual translator.