“政治等效+”框架下中国特色外交隐喻翻译策略研究

Strategies for Translating Diplomacy-serving Metaphors with Chinese Characteristics

外交隐喻是传播外交理念特有的话语方式、修辞手法和语用策略,也是中国特色大国外交话语体系内涵建设的重要组成部分。恰当、得体地翻译外交隐喻,既是外交话语翻译实践工作中亟待解决的难点问题,也是讲好中国故事、传播好中国声音的重要议题。本文拟从外交学、认知隐喻学和翻译学等跨学科的视角,结合真实经典的外交案例,系统分析外交隐喻的文本特征和话语功能。外交隐喻的特殊属性决定了对其翻译应遵循"政治等效+意象再现"(PEIR)这一复合性的翻译标准;在此标准下,不同类型的外交隐喻可采取不同的翻译策略和方法。

The use of metaphors is an indispensable discursive mode,rhetorical device,and pragmatic strategy,and is therefore essential to the expressiveness and functionality of diplomatic discourse.How to appropriately and effectively translate metaphors employed in China’s diplomatic texts is not just a worthy academic problem to be addressed in relevant scholarly fields,but also a significant topic in the on-going discussion on what ought to be the way to tell good stories about China.This paper conducts a research on the strategies for rendering metaphors circulating in China’s diplomatic discourse from the perspectives of diplomacy,cognitive metaphor and translation studies and,on the basis of some case studies,generalizes on the unique attributes of diplomacy-serving metaphors.The study reaffirms metaphor’s rhetorical significance and practical value for diplomatic communication,and proposes that"Political Equivalence+Image Re-presentation"(PEIR)be adopted as the criterion whereby the translation of metaphors is evaluated.In addition,the paper also calls for the use of different translation strategies and methods for dealing with metaphors employed in different types of diplomatic texts.