具身认知视角下多模态漫画对翻译教学的促进作用

An Embodied Cognition Perspective on Multimodal Comics as Translation Exercise

针对大学英语翻译教学中练习设计滞后的现实问题,本文根据具身认知论,通过实证研究,探讨多模态漫画翻译练习的可行性和有效性。研究认为,相比传统纯语言翻译练习,漫画翻译练习更适合以初学者为教学对象的大学英语大班翻译教学,尤其当初学者英语能力中良时,漫画练习能通过激活经验印痕使学习者再入场景,提高学习者的语境意识和学习兴趣,并使之在主动练习中内化翻译技巧和提升文本语境感知力,从而提高翻译能力。

Because of the characteristics of translation teaching of College English where learners are non-English majors and novices at translation and where teaching is usually conducted in large-scaled classes,the traditional unimodal translation exercise focusing on words now seems incapable of fulfilling the teaching objective of helping learners internalizing translation skills and improving their translation competence.Thus,in light of embodied cognition,the study explores the feasibility and effectiveness of comics as a type of translation exercise in translation classes of College English based on teaching practice and through empirical research.It is indicated that,compared with the traditional unimodal translation exercise,the multimodal translation exercise of comics is much more suitable for translation teaching of College English.It can significantly help improve learners’competence of translation especially when their language competence is at/above the intermediate level.According to embodied cognition,the main reason lies in that multimodality in comics can better arouse learners’interest in translation learning and activate their past experiences,which in turn helps improve their ability of perceiving context and of internalizing translation skills in their initiative learning.