医学同传译员的承诺伦理——切斯特曼传统翻译伦理模式之粘合剂

Ethics of Commitment by Medical Simultaneous Interpreters—A Glue of Chesterman’s Traditional Models of Translation Ethics

口译既是一种主体行为,也是一种伦理行为。口译员对口译策略的选择应当受到伦理道德的制约。切斯特曼传统翻译伦理模式包括再现伦理、服务伦理、交际伦理和基于规范的伦理,这四种模式存在着边界不清晰、兼容性不足等问题。通过梳理国内外对翻译伦理的相关研究,并结合医学同传实践的个案分析,本研究发现切斯特曼后期提出的承诺伦理对于前四种翻译伦理模式间的冲突有总体粘合作用,并对口译质量有提升作用。本研究将切斯特曼的承诺伦理运用于分析口译员的策略选择,有助于促进翻译伦理与口译实践的衔接及口译员培养和职业化发展。

Interpreting is both a subjective and an ethical act. The interpreter’s choice of strategies is often guided by ethics. Chesterman’s traditional models of translation ethics consist of the ethics of rep-resentation, the ethics of service, the ethics of communication, and the norm-based ethics. Problems of applying these ethical principles include lack of clear boundaries and compatibility. Through a review of prior research on translation ethics, combined with a case study of excerpts of medical simultaneous interpretation, this study reveals that the ethics of commitment proposed later by Chesterman has a gluing effect on the conflicts among the first four models of translation ethics, and is conducive to enhancing the quality of interpreting. By applying Chesterman’s ethics of commit-ment to the analysis of the interpreters’ strategic choices, this study has contributed to interpreter training and professional development through better alignment between the interpreting practice and translation ethics.