文化预设与中国神话的多模态互文重构——以《山海经》英译为例

Cultural Presupposition and Multi-modal Intertextual Reconstruction of Chinese Mythology: A Case Study on the English Translation of Shanhai Jing

本文采用定性研究和案例研究的方法,以文化预设概念为出发点,对作为古代中国神话基本来源的《山海经》的英译本进行了多维度的文本分析。本研究提出中国神话的对外传播不能单凭经典文本的语际翻译来完成,而是要在一个宏观的多模态的叙事体系下,有意识地将其与语内翻译、语内互文改写以及符际翻译相结合,形成一个动态的相互交织的互文空间,共同促进中国神话的多模态互文重构及其在海外的传播。

This paper, by adopting the methodology of qualitative research and case study and by taking the concept of cultural presupposition as its starting point, conducts multi-dimensional analyses on the English translation of Shanhai Jing, the locus classicus for ancient Chinese myths. It proposes that the traveling of Chinese mythology cannot be limited to interlingual translation of classical texts alone, but should be consciously integrated with intralingual translation, intertextual rewriting within the source language and intersemiotic translation under a multi-modal narrative system thus forming a dynamic intertextual space to promote the multi-modal intertextual reconstruction and transmission of Chinese mythology abroad collaboratively.