记者招待会汉英口译中虚化动词make的应用研究

A Corpus-based Study of the Delexicalized Verb “Make”in Chinese-English Press Conference Interpreting

本文以汉英会议口译语料库3.0为研究平台,分析记者招待会汉英口译中虚化动词make的应用情况。研究结果表明记者招待会汉英口译英译语料中,虚化动词make的使用频率显著高于记者招待会英语原创语料,但与政府工作报告英译语料不存在显著差异。我们认为虚化动词make在记者招待会汉英口译中之所以高频使用,一方面是因为汉语虚化动词在记者招待会汉英口译的汉语原文中使用频率较高,另一方面是由于虚化动词make的语义宽泛,搭配能力强,其应用可以为译员赢得足够时间以处理源语文本的后续信息,而且能够使译文的语言表达正式,从而与记者招待会汉英口译作为正式语言交际活动对于语言表达的要求相契合。研究结果还表明虚化动词make+名词搭配在记者招待会汉英口译语料中,常用于表达言语行为,但在政府工作报告英译中却与言语行为无涉。这一现象是因为记者招待会主要由提问和回答这两类言语行为组成,而政府工作报告与言语行为无关。

Based on the usage of the Chinese-English Conference Interpreting Corpus, this paper investigates the usage of delixicalized verbs in Chinese-English conference interpreting. The study shows that the English delexicalized verb ＂make＂ occurs with a higher frequency in the interpreted English texts of Chinese-English conference interpreting than in the original English texts of press conferences held by American government, but the frequency of the delexicalized verb ＂make＂ exhibits no significant diffe- rence from the translated texts of the work report of Chinese government. This is to a large extent attributable to the high occur- rence of Chinese delexicalized verbs in the source text of Chinese-English conference interpreting, the strong collability of the de- lexicalized verb ＂make＂, and the fact that the use of the delexicalized verb＂ make＂ renders language expression formal. The study also indicates that the collocation of the delexicalized verb ＂make＂ ＋ noun is often used to express verbal acts in the interpreted texts of Chinese-English conference interpreting, but it has nothing to do with verbal acts in the translated texts of the work report of Chinese government, since a press conference is composed of such acts as interrogating and answering, while the report is not.