“5.18讲话”英译文的语言特征及其文本效果——基于语料库的研究

A Corpus-Based Study of the Linguistic Features and Textual Effect of the English Translation of“May18th Speech”

依据批评话语分析理论,借助语料库语言学方法,以拜登政府“行政命令”作为对照语料,从高频名词、高频形容词、主题词we及must的应用等角度,分析习近平总书记2018年“5.18讲话”英译文的语言特征及其文本效果。研究表明,“5.18讲话”英译文高频实词和主题词及其搭配共同构建了辩证科学、务实敢为、自我约束、态度坚决等国家生态文明形象;该形象是各种因素相互作用的结果,其中包括源语的影响和译者翻译策略与方法的使用。

In light of critical discourse analysis,with the help of corpus methodology,and taking the executive order of Biden’s administration as a reference corpus,this paper analyzes the linguistic features and the textual effect of the English translation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s“May18th speech”in 2018 in terms of high-frequency nouns,high-frequency adjectives,and the keywords we and must.The research shows that the high-frequency content words,keywords and their collocations in the English translation of the speech jointly construct China’s ecological civilization image which is mainly characterized by dialectical and scientific outlook,pragmatic approach,self-restraint and resolute attitude.It is believed that the image may be attributable to such factors as the impact of the source text,and the translator’s choice of translation strategies and methods.