也谈微言大义和隐性/双重叙事进程的阐释与翻译

Further Thoughts on"Profoundity of Subtle Words"and Interpretation/Translation of"Covert/Dual Narrative Dynamics"

本文借应邀回应《微言大义》一文的契机,重点探讨了以下问题。首先针对该文提出的意义的难以表现和理解,揭示了德里达对索绪尔符号理论的误用,阐明了意义的相对稳定性,并从修辞立场出发提出了共享阅读的五种可能性。在此基础上,本文探讨了隐性/双重叙事进程可以如何拓展“微言大义”这一概念,将其用于指涉同样的文字在不同叙事进程中同时表达的不同主题意义。这赋予了这一概念多层次的新内涵,包括“大义”如何取决于作品某一个局部的文字与他处文字的互动,以及“大义”如何在特定叙事进程中产生,而不是在上下文中产生。最后,就《微言大义》一文所举实例,探讨了如何打破前理解的藩篱,更好地翻译隐性/双重叙事进程。

In response to Yuan Honggen's"The Profoundity of Subtle Words:Shen Dan's A Study of Dual Narrative Progression and Its Implications for Literary Translation",this essay discusses the following issues.Firstly,in terms of the difficulty of representing and understanding meaning,it reveals Derrida's misuse of Saussure's theory of language,his total neglecting of Saussure's emphasis on the essential"relation between the signifier and the signified,which forms the basis of relatively stable communication.Instead,the present author argues for the possibility of sharing reading in five different ways from a rhetorical perspective.Secondly,this essay explicates how covert/dual narrative progression can extend the meaning of the Chinese idiom"weiyan dayi"(profundity of subtle words),using it to illustrate contrastive kinds of significance the same words generate in different narrative progressions of the same text.In this light,"dayi"rests with the interaction between words in one part of the text and relevant words in other parts of the text,and it is called into being in two or more parallel narrative progressions of the text rather than in the co-text.Thirdly,this essay discusses how to break the plot-centered pre-comprehension and horizon in order to transfer covert/dual narrative progression more successfully in translation.