电影《我不是潘金莲》中语言文化能指字幕英译策略浅析

The Analysis on the Subtitling Strategies of Cultural References in Chinese Movie I Am Not Madame Bovary

电影字幕翻译中的语言文化能指(Cultural References),即语言外文化能指(Extralinguistic Cultural Linguistics)和语言内文化能指(Intralinguistic Cultural References),是整个字幕翻译中最难处理的部分,它的翻译质量在很大程度上决定着整个字幕翻译的好坏,决定着整部电影能否被目的语观众接受。冯小刚的电影《我不是潘金莲》独具中华民族特色,包含中华民族价值观最核心的部分,内容涉及哲学、伦理道德、宗教等中国文化因素。以电影《我不是潘金莲》为语料来源,将原语ECR/ICR与其对应译文进行对比分析探讨翻译策略类型,并量化每种翻译策略的频率,有助于概括出译者的翻译态度。

Cultural References (CRs), including Extralinguistic Cultural References (ECRs) and Intralinguistic cultural References (ICRs), cause translation problems and pose great challenge for subtitlers when they deal with the subtitles of audiovisual productions. Its quality, to a great extent, decides the translation quality of the whole audiovisual texts and determines the acceptance of the whole movie to the target language audience. The Chinese movie I am Not the Madame Bovary directed by the famous comedy director Feng Xiaogang has unique Chinese national characteristics and contains the core part of Chinese national values. This movie contains rich CRs involving philosophy, ethics, religion and some other Chinese cultural factors. Being descriptive in nature, this study explores the types of translation strategies employed by comparing the source text ECRs/ICRs from the movie I am Not the Madame Bovary with their corresponding subtitles in the target text. By quantifying the frequency of each strategy and by calculating the percentage of source-oriented strategies employed in subtitling this movie, certain trend about the subtitler’ decision-making is generalized.