主体间性与和谐翻译——兼评译著《纽伦堡审判》

Intersubjectivity and Harmonious Translation: a Case Study of the Translation of the Nuremberg Trials

主体间性源于哲学、心理学、语言学、社会学的研究领域,可有效地用于解释译者、作者、读者、编辑这些翻译主体间的关系。其中,译者是最具主观能动性主体。好的译者能克服不同语言、文化差异带来的翻译障碍,妥善处理主体间关系,以不同的语言形式再现原文的内容和精神。只有忠实原作内容,和谐传递原作信息的译作才有望立足市场,行而久远。

Intersubjectivity, a perspective borrowed from philosophy, psychology, linguistics and sociology, is found to best explain the relationship between the subjects involved in translation. They are the translator, the author, the reader and the editor, among whom the translator is the one most capable of the subjective initiative. A good translator is able to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers, manage the relationship among the subjects and reconstruct a text faithful to the original in terms of contents and spirit. Only a translation that faithfully and harmoniously reproduces the original messages is known to have greater chance to maintain its vitality at book market.