毕业论文：从译者主体性角度分析《红楼梦》两个译本中文化意象的翻译.doc

毕业论文：从译者主体性角度分析红楼梦两个译本中文化意象的翻译毕业论文：从译者主体性角度分析红楼梦两个译本中文化意象的翻译毕业论文：从译者主体性角度分析红楼梦两个译本中文化意象的翻译:2013-7-25 20:19:28学士学位论文Analysis on Chinese Traditional Culture Information in Two Translation Versions of A Dream of Red Mansions from Translators Subjectivity从译者主体性角度分析红楼梦两个译本中文化意象的翻译 院 系：外国语学院专 业：英语班 级：08级英语B班Analysis on Chinese Traditional Culture Information in Two Translation Versions of A Dream of Red Mansions in the Perspective of the Translators Subjectivity Abstract: A Dream of Red Mansions is regarded as a highly ideological and artistic work of cultural treasure which contains a large number of traditional Chinese culture information, representing the spiritual situation of Chinese people under Chinese federal system. As for English-speaking countries, the English versions of A Dream of Red Mansions play an important role. There are two famous English versions of A Dream of Red Mansions which are from Yang Hsien-yi& Gladys Yang and David Hawkes& John Minford. This paper aims at comparing the two translation versions on traditional Chinese culture information from translators subjectivity especially focuses on their use of different translation strategies: domestication and foreignization. Moreover, this paper will also analyze the reasons that cause the differences. Key words: A Dream of Red Mansions, translators Subjectivity, traditional Chinese culture, domestication, foreignazation摘要：红楼梦是一部具有高度思想性和艺术性的伟大作品，其中包含了大量的中国传统文化信息。这些传统文化信息是中国封建时代的精神风貌的写照。红楼梦的影响已不仅仅局限于中国国内，而是整个世界范围的，而对英语国家的影响主要是靠其英译本传播的。关于红楼梦的英译本最著名的就是杨宪益夫妇和 David Hawkes& John Minford翻译的版本。在对中国传统文化信息的处理方面，两个版本因译者主体性的差异而运用了不同的翻译策略。本文着重从译者主体性的角度出发，比较这两个版本关于中国传统文化方面信息的翻译的差异，尤其是译者在归化和异化翻译策略方面的不同。关键词：红楼梦，译者主体性，中国传统文化，归化，异化Coy and comparison are necessary factors that need to pay special attention. Among them, the translators subjectivity plays an important role. Chinese culture is unique and has its own system, which makes great contributions to the human civilization worldwide. Involving nearly every aspect of Chinese culture, A Dream of Red Mansions is very popular all over the world. Until now, it has been translated into English and some other languages, but only two translations are complete versions. At the same time, these two English versions are most popular: One published under the title of A Dream of Red Mansions by Yang Hsien-yi and his wife Glady Yang, and the other in Britain entitled The Story of the Stone by David Hawkes and John Minford (the first 80 chapters are translated by Hawkes.)This paper will analyze the two translation versions on translators subjectivity when translating traditional Chinese cultural information and compare the two versions as well as giving an explanation on the reasons why the differences occur. Whats more, this paper will also study the influence of translators subjectivity on translators shown by their translation purpose and their translation strategies. 2. Introduction to the translators, two different translation versions of A Dream of Red Mansions and theories on translators subjectivity2.1A brief introduction to Yang Hsien-yi& Gladys Yang, David Hawkes& John Minford and their translation versionsYang Hsien-yi was a famous Chinese translator who translated many Chinese classics into English with his wife Gladys Taylor, among which A Dream of Red Mansions is one of the most famous ones. He used to study in UK and his wife Gladys Yang was from UK. The couple was keen on Chinese culture and introduced Chinese culture to western readers. They mainly translated works that they enjoyed very much and the main reason for their translating was out of their passion for Chinese literature. Yang and his wife returned to China in 1940, and began their decades long co-operation of introducing Chinese classics to the English-speaking world. Working for Foreign Languages Press in Beijing, a government-funded publisher, the husband and wife team produced a number of quality translations. The works translated include classical Chinese poetry such classic works as A Dream of Red Mansions（红楼梦）, The Scholars, Mr. Decadent: Notes Taken in an Outing (老残游记) Liu Es The Travels of Lao Can, and some of Lu Xuns stories. Yang Hsien-yi truly made significant contribution to translating Chinese classics into English and spreading the Chinese culture throughout the world. A Dream of Red Mansions is a great translation work of him. Wu Shushing, the prestigious radiologist, regarded his translation version as the most accurate English translation until then. Yang Hsien-yi always thinks that Chinese people should know about the splendid foreign cultural heritage, and the westerners also should know the Chinese splendid ancient culture. He has said that he translates Chinese into English as faithful as possible.David Hawkes is the former professor of Chinese at Oxford University. He had stayed in China and is passionately fascinated with Chinese culture, literature especially classic literature. In order to translate The Story of the Stone, he resigned the professorship of Oxford UniversityHowever, he only translated the first 80 chapters in three volumes, his son-in-law John Minford, who is also a Sinologist, translated the rest chapters. David Hawkes points out that because the text abounds with passages containing references to books, plays and poems that Cao Xueqin was able to take for granted in his Chinese contemporaries and might often seem puzzling or incomprehensible to the westerners lacking the literary background, he occasionally amplifies the text a little in order to make the passage intelligible.The above description tells us that, for the same literary masterpiece, authors used their subjectivity differently and have the different strategies respectively. Therefore, the contents differ greatly. 2.2A brief introduction to the theory on Translators Subjectivity “Subjectivity” refers to “the specific discerning interpretations of any aspect of experiences. They are unique to the person experiencing them, the qualia that are only available to that persons consciousness” (Wikipedia). From the definition of “Subjectivity” we can infer that translators subjectivity is also one of subjectivity in which the translator is the main role of the translation activity as well as an important participant of the national culture. However, translators subjectivity has been overlooked all long and translators subjectivity was once at the edge of the translation activity in recent years, with the development of the “cultural turn” in translation study, translators subjectivity is gradually gaining its deserved importance.The principle of translators subjectivity first appeared in China in 1982. Translation is not just the transformation from one language to another, but also the interaction of two kinds of culture. Like a bridge, a translator holds two different cultures together. Without this bridge, different cultures would never blend and influence each other, so translator plays an extremely important role in translation activity. When translating one language into the other, it is inevitable for the translator to put in his own understanding. Therefore, it is necessary for us to consider translators subjectivity.The theory of translators subjectivity holds the view that “translation is the reproduction of the original text by adding the translators own understanding of the original text as well as