从认知角度谈颜色隐喻的跨文化翻译——以《红楼梦》为例

Intercultural Translation of Color Metaphors from the Cognitive Perspective: Take A Dream of Red Mansions as Example

根据颜色隐喻的认知机制,对中西方五种基本颜色词的隐喻内涵进行跨文化对比分析,发现这五种基本颜色词中的大多数在汉语和英语中既有相似的隐喻内涵和认知共性,也存在不同的隐喻内涵和认知差异。因此,在对颜色隐喻的跨文化翻译中,尤其是翻译诸如《红楼梦》这种民族色彩浓郁、社会内涵丰富的经典名著时,可针对颜色隐喻社会文化内涵相同、不同、缺失三种情况,采取不同的翻译策略。

According to color metaphor cognitive mechanism,this paper makes cross-cultural comparison between Chinese and western five basic colors＇ metaphor connotation and finds that most of these five basic color words in Chinese and English contain both similarities and differences in metaphor connotation and cognition.Therefore,in the intercultural translation of color metaphors,especially in the translation of A Dream of Red Mansions,the Chinese classics full of unique national character and social background,different translation strategies can be adopted according to the following conditions： similarities,difference and absence in color metaphors＇ social and cultural connotation.