汉译语篇组构衔接隐显问题
2021-03-03黄忠廉
内容摘要:语篇组织离不开显性与隐性衔接。汉译时,译者或多或少会受外语影响。汉译语篇组构时助词“的”不常用,超词形式用得不多,关联副词兼做句子成分,只有句间连词才是核心问题,或因语用、语义、语体、语形紧缩等而隐含,成为主要策略;或因逻辑、结构、语义、句序等显示。衔接手段的隐与显体现了翻译转化的辩证法。
关键词:汉译组构;语篇;衔接;关联词;隐显
基金项目:本文为国家社科基金后期重点项目“翻译变化机理论”(20FYYA002)成果之一。
作者简介:黄忠廉,教授,广东外语外贸大学博士生导师和博士后协作导师,专攻翻译学、汉译语言和汉外对比。
Title: On the Problem of Implicit and Explicit Structural Cohesion in Chinese-Translated Texts: A Case Study on the Conjunctions
Abstract: Explicit and implicit cohesion is an important means for discourse organization. When translating other languages into Chinese, the translator is more or less influenced by the foreign language. The auxiliary word “的”, as well as the super words, is seldom used in the Chinese text. The relative adverbs are often used as sentence components. Only the conjunction between sentences is the core problem. It is either implied because of the pragmatic, semantic, stylistic and form contraction, etc.; or added for the purpose of logic, structure, semantics, or sentence order, etc. The either implicit or explicit cohesive devices embody the dialectics of translation transformation.
Key words: composition of Chinese translation; discourse; cohesion; conjunctions; implicit and explicit
Author: Huang Zhonglian is professor, Ph. D. supervisor and Post-doc advisor of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Guangzhou 510420, China). His main interests include translation studies, study on translated Chinese language and contrastive study between Chinese and foreign languages. E-mail: zlhuang1604@163.com
一、前言
漢译组构的衔接问题主要体现于语篇。汉外语篇衔接手段基本相似,但存在倾向性差异,西语显性的,汉语可能隐性,抑或相反。若是逆汉语隐性特点而采用显性,可能导致汉译失范。据韩礼德和哈桑(Halliday & Hasan 4),语篇常用衔接手段有指称、替代、省略、连接和词汇衔接,前四种属于语法手段,最后一种属于词汇手段。许家金和徐秀玲(94-102、122、150)从汉译英角度证明了衔接显化作为翻译普遍性特征。研究发现,翻译英语有多项语法和词汇衔接特征与原创英语存在显著差异,呈现出衔接显化的特点。其中语法衔接突出表现为多用各类连词。词汇衔接方面,以语篇中句间实词重复现象为典型特征。英语译文的语法衔接显化,大致可从汉语重意合,英语重形合得到解释。而词汇衔接显化,可能与汉语特征以及英语译文多用高频词和泛义词有关。……
