奥康纳《西藏民间故事》英译本叙事建构探析

Narrative Framing of W.F.O’Connor’s English Translation of Folk Tales from Tibet

随着翻译研究的不断深入,人们逐渐认识到翻译并非完全中立的语码转换行为,而且还是一种受制于意识形态和赞助人等诸多因素操控的政治行为。在20世纪初英国对中国西藏的入侵战争中,英国人奥康纳通过《西藏民间故事》的英译诱使读者接受英军入侵中国西藏的合法性,为英国入侵中国西藏制造声势,以实现排斥中国对西藏的主权,建立英国对西藏保护关系之政治目的。

This article draws on Mona Baker’s narrative theory and the notion of framing to explore the narrative strategies W.F.O’Connor utilized in translating Folk Tales from Tibet from Tibetan into English.It concludes that by intentionally manipulating the narrative framing methods in translation,W.F.O’Connor has achieved his purpose of vilifying Chinese central government and Tibet local government,and therefore constructed a fabricated legitimacy for the British invasion into Tibet in 1904.