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奈达翻译理论研究

AStudyonNida’sTranslationTheory

EnglishAbstract

ThisbookmakesasystematicresearchonNida’stranslationtheory,clarifysomemisunderstandingsconcerninghistheory,discloseitstruenatureandexploreitsvalidityandlimitationsinliterarytranslations.ExamplesfromToday’sEnglishVersionandToday’sChineseVersionoftheBible,whichweretranslated,followingNida’stranslationtheory,demonstratethatNida’stheory,contrarytosomepopularwrongassumptions,isapplicabletotranslationpracticebetweenforeignlanguagesandChinese.AcomparativestudyofNida’stheoryandJinDi’stheoryismadetorevealthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetwotheories,andthereasonsfortheirdiscrepanciesarealsoexplored.ExamplesfromJin’sChinesetranslationofUlyssesareexaminedagainsttheprincipleof“equivalenteffect”.ThisbookalsoexploresthelimitationsofNida’stheoryinliterarytranslation,pointingoutthathistheoryfailstoaddresstheissueoftransferenceofaestheticvaluesofliteraryworkintoanotherlanguage.AttemptshavebeenmadetoamendNida’stheoryinrespectoftransferringaestheticvaluesofliteraryworkbymeansof“formalaestheticmarkers”and“non-formalaestheticmarkers”,withaimofmarkingitmoresuitableforliterarytranslationbetweenChineseandEnglish.

CHAPTERONE Introduction

1.1ReasonsforfurtherresearchonNida’stranslationtheory

Hisworksontranslationsetoffthestudyofmoderntranslationasanacademicfield（Snell—Hornby,Heylen,Baker）

BeforehistheorywasintroducedintoChinainthe1980s,peoplemainlyfocusedattentionontraditionalChinesetheories,especiallyYanFu’sthree—characterprincipleoftranslation:

faithfulness,smoothnessandelegance.

SinceNida’stheorywasgroundedsolidlyoncontemporarydevelopmentsoflinguistics,communicationtheory,informationtheory,semioticsandanthropology,Chinesetranslationscholarstookgreatinterestinhistheory.

ChangNamfungsummarizes4kindsofmisunderstandingsregardingNida’stheoryinChina:

1）“Dynamicequivalence”isonlyanidealtranslationctiterion

2）Nida’stheoryisunfittoguidetranslationpracticebetweenChineseandEnglishbecauseitgrowsoutoftranslationexperienceamongIndo—Europeanlanguage

3）Nida’stakes“reader’sresponse”asatranslationcriterioninevaluatingtranslation

4）Nidadoesn’trespecttheculturalfactorsinthesourcelanguageandhismaintenanceofcompletenaturalizationintranslatingisakindofculturalhegemonism.

Theterm“equivalence”inNida’stheorynevermeans“identical”,butonly“substantiallythesame”.

“dynamicequivalence”isfoundedoninformationtheory,andishasondirectrelationshipwith“receptionaesthetics”or“reader-responsetheory”atall.

Nida’sdiscussionaboutkernelsanddeepstructuresisbasedonsemanticlevelwhileChomskyfocusesonsyntacticallevel.

Nida’s“scienceoftranslation”istotallydifferentfromthedebatesofthedebateofwhether“translationisascienceoranart”occurringamongsomeChinesescholars.WhenNidatalksabout“scienceoftranslation”,whathemeansisthathetendsto“dealwiththeprocessoftranslationinascientificmanner”,drawingonthetheoriesoflinguistics,informationandcommunication,etc.

1.2AprofileofNida

1.2.3Hisacademiccontributionstomodernlinguisticsandtranslation

EricM.North,theformerGeneralSecretaryoftheAmericanBibleSocietyoftheAmericanBiblesociety,dividesNida’sacademicactivityinto4phasesonhiswritingsinchronologicalorder:

1）thephaseofdescriptivelinguistics,1943—1951

2）thephaseofcross—culturalcommunication.1952—1960

3）thetranslationphase,1961—1973

4）thesemanticphase,1974—

MessageandMissionwasthemostsignificantbookofthesecondphase.GentzlersuggestedthatitwasinthisbookthatNidafirstoutlinedhistranslationtheory.Thisbookmarkedthebeginningofthethirdphase.

Inthethirdphase,inthebook,TowardaScienceofTranslating,Nidafirstadvancedthepropositionof“dynamicequivalence”,andthethree-stagemodelofthetranslationprocess：

“analysis,transferandrestructuring”.ItiscommonlyagreedthatTowardaScienceofTranslatingbestsummarizesthevariousaspectsofhistranslationtheory.

ForNida,translatingmeanstranslatingmeaning.

ThemostrepresentativebookofthisphasewasFromOneLanguagetoAnother.Inthisbook,Nidanotonlyfurtherexploredtheissuesofmeaningofadoptingasociosemioticsapproach,butsubstituted“functionalequivalence”for“dynamicequivalence”justtoavoidunnecessarymisunderstandings.

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1.3AsurveyofNida’stranslationtheory

WewillreviewNida’stranslationtheoryfromtwoimportantaspects:

1）thescientificstudyoftranslating

2）theprincipleof“dynamicequivale