《心经》选段梵语原文及汉英日三语译文概念功能比较分析

A Comparative Analysis of the Sanskrit Source Text and Chinese,English,Japanese Translations of Heart Sutra Excerpts:The Perspective of Ideational Function

文章选取佛教经典《心经》中阐述色空关系部分及咒语部分为语料,从系统功能语言学的视角对比分析梵语原文及汉英日三语译文的语言特征,重点关注语篇语义和词汇语法两个层次上的概念功能,包括经验功能和逻辑功能两部分。研究发现,梵语原文和三语译文在概念功能上存在一些关键差异,主要原因有语言本体特征和译者身份两个方面。

Within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory,this paper tries to make a comparative analysis of the Sanskrit source text of Heart Sutra(excerpts on the relationship between form and emptiness and the magic spell)and the Chinese,English and Japanese translations.The study focuses on the ideational functions,including experiential and logical functions,which are manifest on the two strata of discourse semantics and lexicogrammar.Results show that there are significant differences among the Sanskrit original and three translated versions.These differences are caused by the typological features of the four languages on the one hand,and the translation strategies determined by translators’identities on the other,as scholars and Buddhists may produce markedly distinct translated texts based on the same source text.