基于语料库的2017-2019年政府工作报告中动词名词化分析
2019-10-07闫月贺


【摘要】在一个国家的行政管理中,政治文书的翻译起着重要的作用,特别是在与其他国家的外交交往中。政府工作报告作为对外宣传的重要资料,是了解国情、政治制度和政治立场、传递国家基本政策、反映国家意志力的权威性来源。译者总是尽其所能地采用各种转换手段来达到源语言和目标语言的对等要求。大量使用动词名词化是政治文书,特别是政府工作报告显著特点之一。通过自建政府工作报告汉英双语平行语料库,利用语料库技术分析2017-2019三年政府工作报告中动词名词化的使用频率和特点,并简要讨论其大量使用动词名词化的原因以及如何更好地指导翻译实践。
【关键词】语料库翻译学;政府工作报告;动词名词化
【Abstract】In the administration of a country, the translation of political documents plays an important role, especially in diplomatic exchanges with other countries. As an important material for external propaganda, report on the work of the government is an authoritative source for understanding the national conditions, political system and political position, transmitting the basic national policies and reflecting the national will power. Translators always try their best to achieve equivalence between source language and target language by means of various transformations. Verbal nominalization is one of the prominent features of political documents, especially report on the work of the government. Based on the self-built bilingual parallel corpus of report on the work of the government, this paper uses corpus technology to analyze the frequency and characteristics of verb Nominalization in government work reports for the period 2017-2019, and briefly discusses the reasons for the large use of verb nominalization and how to better guide translation practice.
【Key words】Corpus Translation Study; Report on the Work of the Government; Verbal Nominalization
【作者簡介】闫月贺(1993-),女,汉族,河南人,燕山大学,硕士在读,研究方向:英语翻译。
引言
名词化是人类语言的普遍现象,对增强语言的表达力具有重要作用。研究发现就形态变化而言,英语动词的名词化通常由两类词缀组成:一类为动词的进行体形式-ing,称为动名词或动作名词,用于一切动词的词尾,另一类则是因动词而异的后缀,如:-ment -tion,-sion, -y等,称为动词派生名词。由于英语中动词添加后缀构成名词方式较多,本文未能把所有的动词名词化现象都概括在内,只针对动词名词化常用的几个后缀进行统计对比,包括-ment -tion, -ance, -ing。本文采用定性分析与定量分析相结合的方法,以卡特福德的翻译转换理论为理论框架,研究翻译语料库在2017-2019年政府工作报告汉译英中的使用情况。……
