简评《红楼梦》两译本中诗词翻译的译者风格——一项基于语料库的研究

A Corpus-Based Approach to the Translation Styles of Two Versions of A Dream of Red Mansions

基于现代语料库的技术,通过自建小型语料库,从词汇和句法两个方面对中国古典名著《红楼梦》中三首诗词的两个英译本的型符/类符比、词汇频率及平均句长进行对比和分析,从得出的数据对译者的翻译风格进行研究。在翻译批评中应用语料库的研究方法克服了作者的主观局限性,且能直观地分析译者的翻译特色,从而使翻译文本的研究更加客观和科学。

Based on the self-built small-sized corpus of three Chinese classic poems in the novel A Dream of Red Mansions, the author has made a contrastive analysis on type/token ratio, words frequency and the average sentence length in two versions of the novel. Using these data, the author has analyzed different translator’s styles. Corpus approach reduces the subjectivity, facilitates the analysis on translation styles and thus makes the study more scientific.