西方重译研究述评

A Review of Retranslation Studies in the West

西方的重译研究呈现出范式批评研究路径,主要体现在重译假设的建立以及围绕重译假设展开的承继性、系统性的实证研究中。这是西方重译研究的第一个突出特点,即在重译理论体系构建过程中呈现出动态连续性,试图通过"假设——实证——修正假设——实证"的论证方法,在不同程度上扩展或修正前人的重译假设,建立模型体系。与此同时,由于深陷于建立一套能描述一切重译发生规律、概括一切重译本发展趋势的重译假设的思维定势之中,以致无法触及重译过程中纷繁复杂的因素与现象,束缚了西方重译研究向前发展的脚步。

Scholars in the West tend to adopt a paradigmatic approach to retranslation studies, which is most vividly reflected through their efforts to formulate the so-called ＂retranslation hypothesis＂ and through the ensuing systematic researches done to test the hypothesis. That also points to the first characteristic of retranslation studies in the West, that is, there is a dynamic continuity in the construction of retranslation theoretical system. Through the cycle of ＂hypothesis-- testing--hypothesis revision--testing＂, revisions or expansions of previously formulated hypotheses have been continuously made to certain extent to set up a scientific model. At the same time, retranslation studies in the West have been hindered by its fixed research pattern in that those complicated factors and phenomena involved in the process of retranslations may easily be ignored or simplified when it focuses too much on covering the laws of all retranslations and predicting their trends through the formulation of retranslation hypotheses.