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Social Filter Theoretical Perspective on Howard Goldblatt’s Translation of >The Field of Life and Death< – Taking Ge Haowen's English translation of >Life and Death Field< as an Example [社会过滤器视角下文学翻译研究 –以葛浩文英译《生死场》为例 ], Master thesis, English Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2017 [application of Fromm's theories to art].

  • 翻译是一项跨文化的人类交流活动,由于文化具有个性,因此不同文化间的对等翻译是不可能实现的,在将由一种语言所承载的文化转换为由另一种语言来承载时,定会出现损失现象。翻译过程中的文化缺失现象早已引起了译界的广泛关注,但在过去漫长的时间里,译界对该现象的研究却一直局限于语言层面,多是借用语言学理论来对其进行分析。直到二十世纪七十年代多元系统理论被提出以来,人们才逐渐意识到翻译的跨学科性质,开始致力于从众多其他学科中寻求理论支撑。在此过程中,哲学对翻译的指导作用日益凸显并激起了学者的高度热情。鉴于翻译是一种社会活动,因此翻译批评决不能忽视特定的社会因素的制约,这种制约用西方哲学家弗洛姆的话来说就是>社会过滤器<,本文拟以弗洛姆的社会过滤器为理论基础来研究葛浩文翻译的《生死场》英译本中的文化过滤现象,希望能有助于扩展翻译批评的理论视野,加深人们对翻译的社会属性的认识。>社会过滤器<概念是弗洛姆在解释社会无意识理论过程中提出的一种社会过滤机制,弗洛姆认为正是>社会过滤器<横亘在经验与意识之间,阻止某些经验转换为意识。翻译总是在一定的社会环境中进行,受某些社会因素的制约,因此,以>社会过滤器<为理论基础进行翻译研究符合翻译活动的社会属性。《生死场》是我国当代作家萧红的成名作,小说讲述了九一八前夕哈尔滨近郊一个村庄的乡民们的生活情状。原作中独特的语言风格和文化元素给翻译带来了巨大挑战。葛浩文先生曾在译者前言部分明确表示为了适应读者的审美倾向,他在翻译过程中不得不删改了原文的部分内容。可见,即使是像葛浩文这样的翻译大家,在翻译诸如《生死场》这样充满乡土气息的文学作品时,也没能摆脱社会过滤器的束缚。然而,正是这样的英译本,自1979年出版以来,却一直深受外国读者的喜爱。因此,对该译本进行研究一定能为翻译实践提供可资借鉴的经验。但截止到目前,译界对这一译文的研究少之又少,更谈不上全面性和系统性的批评了。本研究以《生死场》的英译本为研究对象,通过仔细对比原文与译文,并查询往期关于对葛浩文和他的翻译思想的研究,分别从语言、逻辑、社会禁忌三方面分析了译者在翻译过程中对原文本的处理,发现葛浩文对语言,逻辑,社会禁忌三个方面的内容的过滤力度并不是一致的,他对语言和逻辑的过滤力度较小,在以归化为主,异化为辅的翻译策略的指导下,主要过滤掉了原文的表达方式,而在意义上则做到了忠实于原文,但对社会禁忌的过滤力度则相对较大,主要通过采用归化和替代,过滤掉了原文的文化内涵和意义,仅仅保留了其功能。2017年是萧红逝75周年,此论文一方面算作译界在译本方面对葛浩文翻译研究的有效补充,另一方面作者也希望借此文向民国才女萧红致敬。
  • Since translation is an intercultural communication, and each culture carries with itself unique characteristics, the equal translation between different cultures is surely impossible. When the culture embodied in one language is translated into another, it will inevitably undergo some losses. Though the loss of culture in translation has long be award and studied, most of such studies have limited their theoretical perspectives to linguistic theories and focused merely on language. It was not until 1970s, when the polysystem theory was proposed, translation started to walk out of the realm of linguistics and its inter-disciplinary nature began to become prominent. From then on, scholars all over the world expanded their studies from different perspectives to seek theoretical support for translation study. Among those perspectives, the philosophical ones have attracted abundant attention due to their remarkable guiding function on translation. Given the fact that translation is a social activity and is restricted by various social factors, translation studies can’t be completed without regard to the social filter. Though the combination of philosophy and translation enjoys a long history, the adoption of the social filter theory for translation study is rare and lacks of depth. This thesis takes Fromm’s social filter theory as its theoretical perspective to study the culture filtration in the English version of >The Field of Life and Death<, hoping that it will be of some help to broaden the theoretical horizon for translation studies and will do good to deepening people’s awareness of the social property of translation. The social filter is a filtering mechanism put forward by Erich Fromm in his attempt to explain how social unconsciousness occurs. According to Fromm, it is this mechanism that stands between experience and consciousness, forbidding certain experience to enter into the realm of con¬sciousness.– As translation always occurs in a certain social environment and is undoubtedly restricted by some social factors, so adopting the social filter theory for translation study is of high rationality and conforms to the social property of translation. Such application is made to the English version of Shengsichang, Hsiao Hung’s first novel that brought her great fame. The novel tells life stories about a group of peasants living in a small village near Harbin right before the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The unique language style and cultural elements in the source text make the novel a paradigm of North-East China folk literature but at the same time, pose great challenges to translators. Howard Goldblatt stated in the Introduction of The Field of Life and Death that he had to make some changes and deflections to the source text to make the translation readable and acceptable by target readers. So it is safe to conclude that when translating literature filled with local flavor and unique language styles, even an excellent translator as capable as Howard Goldblatt can’t extricate himself from the restriction of the social filter. Though the English version of The Field of Life and Death is not faithful to the source text to some extent when considered strictly, it has enjoyed a high popularity ever since it was published in 1979, which proves that it is approvable to the target language society in both language and content, and thus a careful study of the translated version can certainly bring us valuable experience that is worthy of learning. It is for this reason and the insufficient study on it that this MA thesis is composed.– This thesis takes the English version of Hsiao Hung’s novel, Shengsichang, as a case study. By compa-ring the source text and the target text carefully and referring to the previous studies on Howard Goldblatt as well as his translation thoughts, the author has found that when dealing with language and logic in the source text, Howard Goldblatt adopted domestication as main strategy with foreignization functioning as a walking stick, but when it comes to the translation of social taboos, only domestication or substitution was adopted. It is concluded that social filtering does exist in translation and translation strategies should be selected flexibly in accordance with the power manifested by different components of the social filter in the target language society. In addition, since 2017 is the 75th anniversary of Hsiao Hung’s death, this thesis can not only be deemed as a supplement for studies on Howard Goldblatt and his translation, but can also be regarded as a way to honor the talented woman writer, Hsiao Hung. [Author’s translation

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Author:Ling Zhang
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:Chinese
Year of first Publication:2017
Release Date:2019/03/04
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