中医翻译理论与话语权构建

Traditional Chinese medicine translation theory and discourse power remodeling

古代中医的对外传播是以汉语为媒介的。但近年来,中国在中医对外传播中话语权缺失,表现为中医英译标准选词中的话语权不足、现代医学阴影下中医文化的矮化等,这亟需重塑中医翻译话语权。在辨清翻译研究概念逻辑的基础上,笔者主张基于理论视角重塑中医翻译话语权,即秉持中医文化翻译思想,以异化翻译策略为主导,构建“翻译思想-翻译策略-翻译方法”多维度交叉融合的中医翻译理论,指导中医典籍翻译实践,在中医术语翻译标准选词中赢得主导权,避免中医翻译“去中国化”倾向,推动中医药文化对外传播。

Chinese language is the medium of ancient dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM).However,recently China does not have sufficient discourse power in TCM dissemination,namely,the lack of discourse power in the selection of standard TCM English terms and the dwarfing of TCM culture in the shadow of modern medicine make it urgent for us to remodel the discourse power in TCM translation.Having distinguished the conceptual logic in translation studies,the author proposes that to reshape the discourse power in TCM translation from a theoretical perspective,translators should adhere to the thought of TCM cultural translation,take the foreignization translation strategy as the leading role,build a TCM translation theory of multi-dimensional integration of“translation thought-translation strategy-translation methods”,which serves to guide the translation practice of TCM classics and win the leading role in the selection of standard TCM English terms,avoid the tendency of desinicization in TCM translation,and promote the international dissemination of TCM culture.