评价理论态度系统视角下《长恨歌》英译对比研究——以弗莱彻和许渊冲译本为例

A Comparison of the Two English Versions of A Song of Everlasting Sorrow from the Perspective of the Attitude System of Appraisal Theory-Taking Fletcher's and Xu Yuanchong's Translations as Examples

该文基于系统功能语言学中的评价理论,聚焦于其态度子系统,对白居易创作的长篇叙事诗《长恨歌》原诗及其两英译本中态度资源进行对比分析。同时借助语料库标注工具UAM Corpus Tool,对原诗和两英译本中各类态度资源进行标注及统计。研究结果发现:原诗中态度资源较多,弗莱彻(W.J.Fletcher)译本增加了丰富的态度资源,其中情感及鉴赏资源增加明显;而许渊冲译本相较于原文态度资源分布相差不大,与弗译相比,两者态度资源分布数量上无显著性差异,而微观层面上对比文本内容,仍存在差异性。基于此,该文发掘了其异同背后的价值主客体、译者主体性、表达与现实等原因。

Based on the attitude system of appraisal theory in systemic functional linguistics,this paper makes a comparative analysis of the attitude resources in the original poem of Bai Juyi's long narrative poem A Song of Everlasting Sorrow and its two English versions.With the help of corpus annotation tool UAM Corpus Tool 6,various attitude resources in the original poem and translations are annotated,and statistical data are obtained.The results show that there are more attitude resources in the original poem,and W.J.Fletcher's translation has added more attitude resources,including affect and appreciation resources.However,Xu Yuanchong's translation has little difference in the distribution of attitude resources compared with the original text,and no significant difference compared with Fletcher's translation.However,there are still differences when comparing the attitude resources of the two translations at the micro level.Based on this,this paper then explores the reasons behind the similarities and differences in terms of value subject and object,translator subjectivity,expression and reality.