译者主体性视角下角色名称的意义重构
南华大学, 语言文学学院, 湖南衡阳 421001
| 摘 要： | 文学作品常通过角色名称来推动情节发展，为故事埋下伏笔，对于传递文本信息有重要作用。市场上流通的译文中，角色名称多采用音译法。通过同音汉字来传递角色名称的含义，译者创造受到限制，原文含义流失过多，作者与目的读者之间的桥梁无法联通。本文通过选取戴乃迭的《边城》英译本，探讨角色名称在译者主体性下如何就语言创造性、文化创造性与审美创造性三大基本特征重构意义，贯通语篇，借此提高中国文化影响力。译者戴乃迭跳脱出了“守旧”的桎梏，积极发挥自身能动性，采用创造性的翻译保留语言魅力，联通不同语言中的文化和审美，突出人名与角色的关联性，取消角色名字天然的无序性，重构角色形象，力求完美还原角色特点，保留原文韵味。推而广之，译者当兼顾翻译中的多样性原则与灵活性原则，因“文”制宜，在提升读者阅读体验的同时，让中国故事在新时代焕发出新的生机。 |
| 关 键 词： | 译者主体性; 意义重构; 《边城》; 角色名称翻译 |
| DOI： | 10.57237/j.cll.2023.03.003 |
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收稿日期: 2023-04-26
接受日期: 2023-06-12
在线出版日期: 2023-06-29
Reconstruction of Semantic Coherence of Characters’ Names from the Perspective of the Translator’s Subjectivity
School of Languages and Literature, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
| Abstract: | Characters’ names in literary works are key to conveying text information, which is applied to motivate the plot and to foreshadow the ending. In existing translated texts, the characters’ names most apply the transliteration. Delivering the connotation of names in a text by homophonous Chinese limits the creativity of translators and loses much of the beauty of the source text, thus breaking the bridge between the targeted readers and authors. On the English version of The Border Town by Gladys B. Tayler, this paper discusses that under the translator's subjectivity, how characters’ names achieve the reconstruction of semantic coherence from the creativity of languages, cultures and aesthetics to improve the cultural influence. Getting rid of rails, Gladys, a translator, took the initiative to apply the creative translation to retain the charm of language expressions, reconnect cultures and aesthetic experience of different languages, outline the relationship between characters and their names, cancel the natural randomness of names, reconstruct the images of characters and reappear their typical characteristics. By a logical extension of this point, translators should take into account the principle of diversity and flexibility when converting the source text into the targeted one. Applying various measures to different literary genres, translators are encouraged to improve readers' reading experience, thus revitalizing Chinese stories in the new era. |
| Keywords: | Translator’s Subjectivity; Reconstruction of Semantic Coherence; The Border Town; Translation of Characters’ Names |
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