副文本视域下的译者主体性差异研究——基于《鹿鼎记》与《射雕英雄传》英译本的描写性对比分析

Translators’Differentiated Subjectivity Presented in Paratexts——A Descriptive and Comparative Study on the English Versions of Deer and Caldron and Legends of Condor Heroes:A Hero Born

翻译是经由译者的翻译行为而实现的符号交际活动,必然体现出译者的主体性选择。本文基于闵福德译《鹿鼎记》和郝玉青译《射雕英雄传》的副文本,对比分析学者型译者和商业型译者在翻译中所呈现的主体性差异。两类译者由于身份背景的差异,在选择源语文本、出版机构等方面呈现出差异化倾向;对比两译本的外副文本发现,译者本人的自我评价显示两位译者对个人译本的认可程度不同,外部评价对两位译者及其译本的关注侧重点不同;对比两译本的内副文本发现,两位译者在显形与隐身、能动与受动、施为选择、厚译程度方面均存在主体性差异。

Translation,which is regarded as a semiotic communicative activity fulfilled by translation behavior,is bound to reflect the translator’s subjectivity.Based on descriptive analyses of paratexts of the translated English versions of Deer and Caldron and Legends of Condor Heroes:A Hero Born respectively by John Minford and Anna Holmwood,this study attempts to figure out the differentiation between translators’subjectivity of the scholar-translator and the commercialized translator.Through comparison,the study concludes three aspects of differences.Firstly,there exist differences in selection of source texts and publishing presses.Moreover,the comparative analyses of their epitexts manifest the different levels of self-identification in his or her own translation and the different evaluation focus from other reviewers or studiers.Also the comparative analyses of their peritexts demonstrate the two translators’differentiated subjectivity in terms of visibility and invisibility,activity and passivity,"act of behavior"and degree of"thick translation".