翻译与现代汉语对比类话语标记使用的历时变化

Interaction between translational Chinese and modern Chinese in the diachronic use of contrastive discourse markers

在现代汉语从成型到成熟的进程中,有外部因素参与其中,其中就包含翻译这种间接语言接触。长期以来,有关间接语言接触促动汉语变化的研究很少触及翻译引发的汉语篇章组织方式的变化。本文的研究表明,现代汉语较以前的旧白话更依赖话语标记,标记的使用形式也更丰富,这类变化较其他方面的变化更为明显,也更具解释力。本文聚焦对比类句首话语标记,探讨了翻译在现代汉语发展过程中所起的作用,研究表明,翻译通过选择性用法复制丰富了汉语标记语表达形式,是促动现代汉语变化的主要外因。

In the first decades of the 20 thcentury,modern Chinese accepted the influence of the outside factors,of which translation is one. For a long time,the studies concerning the evolution of Chinese resulting from indirect language contact seldom touch upon the contact-induced diachronic change in the shaping of discourse. However,the study shows the change in this respect is more obvious and typical than those in other aspects,and that modern Chinese exhibits greater reliance on contrastive markers to frame discourse. This paper,based on diachronic comparable corpora,looks into the use of sentence-initial contrastive markers and the role that translation plays in the development of modern Chinese,and it finds that by selective copying,the use of DM in translational language is copied into Chinese and adds to its variation in discourse organization.