论南音唱词的翻译局限及对策

On the Limitations to English Translation of Nanyin Lyrics and Their Countermeasures

翻译局限即不可译性,但后者的命名法显得太过绝对,因为翻译局限有一定程度的可译性,也有发展变化的过程。南音唱词英译过程中存在语言成分空缺、语用涵义不同、诗性的不可译和可演唱性的缺失等翻译局限。译者可以用文化翻译理论为指导,灵活运用各种翻译策略,力求译文与原文在文化功能上的等值,最终解决南音唱词的翻译局限问题。

Limitation of translation is untranslatability,but the nomenclature of the latter seems to be too absolute,because limitation of translation has a certain degree of translatability as well as a process of development.There are vacancies of language elements,differences of pragmatic implication,untranslatability of poeticity and lack of performancability in the process of Chinese-to-English translation of Nanyin lyrics. Translators can apply the theories of cultural translation to achieve the equivalence of cultural functions,and solve the problems with the translation of Nanyin lyrics.