“审美距离”在陌生化手法翻译中的再现

Representation of Aesthetic Distance in the Translation of Defamiliarization

"陌生化"意指打破读者对文本的审美定式,利用形式的新奇变异,增加感知难度和时间,以期打破索然无味的阅读,重新激发读者的审美欲望。换言之,陌生化存在的意义就在于"唤醒",延长阅读的审美距离。类比式翻译借由两种语言形式相同或相似的性质,推理并表征与原文形式对等的审美距离,以"化腐朽为神奇"的手法传达艺术的精髓。

Defamiliarization aims to break conventional conceptions the reader hold for a certain literary work. With novel changes in form, the work gradually increases the perceptive difficulties and time for readers, evoking their desire for the aesthetic appreciation and prolonging a quite interesting reading process which is supposed to be boring in the first place. In another word, the function of defamiliarization is to ＂wake up＂ the reader and prolong their aesthetic distance. On the basis of same or similar linguistic form in English and Chinese, Analogical Translation is designed to first infer the aesthetic distance equivalent to that in the original and then made it represented similarly. Such a technique electrifies what is supposed to be dead in readers, conveying the artistic essence of the original to the target.