翻译理论集锦.docx

1. terms1) translationTranslation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. While interpreting — the facilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages— antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature. There exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 BCE) into Southwest Asian languages of the second millennium BCE.Translators always risk inappropriate spill-over of source-language idiom and usage into the target-language translation.On the other hand,spill-overs have imported usefulsource-language calques and loanwords that have enriched the target languages.Indeed,translators have helped substantially to shape the languages into which they have translated.Owing to the demands of business documentation consequent to the Industrial Revolution that began in the mid-18th century,some translation specialties have become formalized, with dedicated schools and professional associations.Because of the laboriousness of translation,since the 1940s engineers have sought to automate translation or tomechanically aid the human translator.The rise of the Internet has fostered a world-wide market for translation services and has facilitated language localization.Translation studies systematically study the theory and practice of translation.2)Translation methods翻译方法是翻译活动中，基于某种翻译策略，为达到特定的翻译目的所采取的特定的途径、步骤、手段。

Literal translation : means not to alter the original words and sentences, it strives to keep thesentiments and style of the original. It takes sentences as its basic units and takes the whole textinto consideration at the same time in the ideological context and the style of the original works andretains as much as possible the figures of speech.eg:纸老虎 paper tiger word for word Liberal translation: is an alternative approach which is used mainly to convey the meaning andspirit of the original without trying to reproduce its sentence patterns or figure of speech. Eg；Adam ’s apple 喉结sense for sense3) Translation strategies翻译策略是翻译活动中，为实现特定的翻译目的所依据的原则和所采纳的方案集合。

A plan or policy designed for a particular purpose.异化：Foreignization尽量不要打扰原作者，而是把读者带向原作者。

Schleiermacher :“Leavethe author in piece as much as possible, and move the reader toward him. ”尽量保留原文的语言、文学、文化特质，保留异国风 .归化：Domestication 尽量不要打扰原作者，而是把作者带向读者。

Schleiermacher : “Leave the author in piece as much as possible, and move the author toward reader. ”具体表现为在翻译中，尽量用目的语读者喜闻乐见的语言、文学、文化要素来替换源语的语言、文学、文化要素，恪守、回归目的语的语言、文学和文化规范4) equivalenceIi was advocated by Jakobson. Through to the 1950s and 1960s, discussions in translation studies tended to concern how best to attain "equivalence". The term "equivalence" had two distinct meanings, corresponding to different schools of thought. In the Russian tradition, "equivalence" was usually a one-to-one correspondence between linguistic forms, or a pair of authorized technical terms or phrases, such that "equivalence" was opposed to a range of精品文库"substitutions". However, in the French tradition of Vinay and Darbelnet, drawing on Bally,"equivalence" was the attainment of equal functional value, generally requiring changes in form.Catford's notion of equivalence in 1965 was as in the French tradition. In the course of the 1970s,Russian theorists adopted the wider sense of "equivalence" as something resulting from linguistictransformations.At about the same time, the Interpretive Theory of Translation introduced the notion of deverbalizedsense into translation studies, drawing a distinction between word correspondences and senseequivalences, and showing the difference between dictionary definitions of words and phrases (word correspondences) and the sense of texts or fragments thereof in a given context (senseequivalences).The discussions of equivalence accompanied typologies of translation solutions (also called"procedures", "techniques" or "strategies"), as in Fedorov (1953) and Vinay and Darbelnet (1958). In1958 Loh Dianyang's Translation: Its Principles and Techniques ( 英汉翻译理论与技巧 ) drew onFedorov and English linguistics to present a typology of translation solutions between Chinese andEnglish.In these traditions, discussions of the ways to attain equivalence have mostly been prescriptive andhave been related to translator training.5) Translation studiesTranslation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory,description and application of translation, interpreting,and localization.As an interdiscipline,Translation Studies borrows much from the various fields of study that support translation. Theseinclude comparative literature, computer science,history,linguistics,philology,philosophy,semiotics and terminology.The term translation studies was coined by the Amsterdam-based American scholar James S.Holmes in his paper"The name and nature of translation studies", which is considered afoundational statement for the discipline. In English,writers occasionally use the term "translatology"(and less commonly"traductology")to refer to translation studies,and the corresponding French term for the discipline is usually traductologie (as in the Soci t éFran?aiseéde Traductologie). In the United States there is a preference for the term Translation andInterpreting Studies (as in the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association),although European tradition includes interpreting within translation studies (as in the EuropeanSociety for Translation Studies).Early studiesHistorically, translation studies has long been prescriptive (telling translators how to translate), to thepoint that discussions of translation that were not prescriptive were generally not considered to beabout translation at all. When historians of translation studies trace early Western thought abouttranslation, for example, they most often set the beginning at Cicero's remarks on how he usedtranslation from Greek to Latin to improve his oratorical abilities — an early description of whatJerome ended up calling sense-for-sense translation. The descriptive history of interpreters in Egyptprovided by Herodotus several centuries earlier is typically not thought of as translation studies—presumably because it does not tell translators how to translate. In China, the discussion on how totranslate originated with the translation of Buddhist sutras during the Han Dynasty.6) Translation schoolsFunctional theories of translationKey conceptsFunctional theories from Germany in the 1970s-1980s mark a move away fromstatic linguistic typologies.Reiss stresses equivalence at text level, linking language functions to text typesand translation strategy.Holz-M? intt?ri's theory of translational action: a communicative process involving aseries of players.Vermeer's skopos theory of translation strategy depending on purpose of TT isexpanded in Reiss and VermeenNord's translation-oriented text analysis: a functional approach withmore attention to ST.Linguistic school of translation studiesEquivalence and equivalent effectKey conceptsThe problem of equivalence in meaning, discussed by Jakobson (1959) and central to translation studies for two decades.Nida ’s adaptation of transformational grammar model, and ‘ scientific ’ methods to analyze meaning in his work on Bible translating.Nida ’s concepts of formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence and the principle of equivalence and the principle of equivalent effect: focus on the receptor.Newmark ’s semantic translation and communicative translation.Development of?bersetzungswissenschaft (‘ science of translating ’ ) in the Germanies ofthe 1970s and 1980s.Theoretical criticisms of equivalence and the tertium comparationis.Roman Jakobson: the nature of linguistic meaning and equivalenceNida and‘ the science of translatingNewmark: semantic and communicative translationKoller: Korrespondenz and ?quivalenz Later developments in equivalence 交际翻译流派The Communicative Translation school.阐释学派Hermeneutic School of Translation Study代表人物：施某尔。