运动事件框架下《画皮》三种译文的比较分析

A Comparative Analysis of Three Translation Versions of The Painted Skin:From the Perspective of Motion Event-frames

基于Talmy运动事件框架理论,对比研究了翟理思、丹尼斯·马尔和维克多·马尔、闵福德三个《画皮》译本中运动事件的表达差异。通过将译文的运动事件还原成一定的认知语义结构,再从词汇化模式对三个译文进行运动事件比较,发现(1)翟理思译本中的运动动词方式、路径信息多数少于原文,拘泥于原文,较缺乏动态性;(2)马尔译本追求直译,但核心动词的语义信息时而不准确,译文较为平淡;(3)闵福德译本中的运动动词语义信息包容量较大,善用状语从句突显背景信息,译本较为灵动。

This paper,based on motion event-frames,makes a contrastive study of three translations of The Painted Skin in Strange Stories of a Chinese Studio.By transforming the sentence into a cognitive semantic structure,then comparing three translation versions according to their lexicalization patterns,the result shows that:(1)Herbert Giles′s translation lacks dynamics,the information of most motion verbs is less than that of the source text;(2)Mair′s translation is relatively plain,and the semantic information of some verbs are inconsistent with the source text;(3)John Minford′s translation has vivid motion verbs,and Minford is good at using adverbial clauses to highlight the background information,which makes the translation more dynamic.