完善译文的文学功能乃文学翻译的核心问题——兼论文学翻译的创作本质

文学翻译的过程同时也是创作文学作品的过程.文学翻译的性质决定了文学翻译的核心问题是努力做到全面实现译文的文学功能,即原文文学意境的传达,或者说原作文学效果的再现,译者应当把完善译文的文学功能作为自己的主要目标.因此,创作文学作品是文学翻译的根本任务,而译文则是作者和译者共同写作的结果.     

从国外教学翻译法反观我国大学英语教学

教学翻译法在国外的外语教学界的地位几经沉浮。随着21世纪应用语言学和翻译学理论的不断发展和完善,人们再次以新的目光审视和评价这种教学方法,探讨在理解翻译本质并有一个合理的理论框架指导的前提下,如何适当掌握其在课堂中的运用,使其能有效促进外语学习中听、说、读、写四项技能的提高。借鉴国外研究成果,针对中国国情,我国研究者在大学英语的教学翻译法的改革探索中,也提出了提高大学生外语能力的指导性建议。     

从翻译美学的角度论小说翻译中人物语言的审美再现

小说是通过塑造典型人物形象来反映现实生活的一种文学体裁。人物形象丰满与否,直接取决于人物个性化的语言。能否准确传译人物语言便成了小说翻译的关键。翻译过程中,译者应本着审美等值的原则努力再现小说中人物语言的审美价值。     

翻译教学的语言理论背景——对《大学英汉翻译教程》的理论补充

翻译教学必须有语言理论作为其背景。理解过程中的语义、语境、语用是分析的理论依据。表达过程中的动态对等,特别是英、汉两种语言的核心句型,以及语篇概念和象似性理论是翻译的重要语言理论背景。     

英汉谚语的表达特性及翻译模式

英汉语言是两种具有悠久历史且表现丰富的语言,在文化历史的发展 中形成了大量的谚语,英汉两个民族因其思维和表达的共同性和差异性体现了英汉谚 语表达特点的共性和个性。根据这些特性,提出英汉谚语翻译采用直译、意译、直译兼 意译和释译四种翻译模式。     

语用学在文化翻译中的应用——中国古典诗词英译比较个案分析

跨文化翻译中,文化信息的传达是翻译的本质。在文化翻译中,译者要结合语用学知识,立足原文语境,充分把握原语作者的语用用意,通过推理,寻找原文与语境的最佳关联,并深刻把握原文文化底蕴,从而达到准确传达文化信息的的目的。     

Can postcolonial theory help explain Latvian politics of integration? Reflections on contemporary Latvia as a postcolonial society

ABSTRACT

Democracy and civic society in Latvia are strongly affected by a multifaceted gap between the ethnic majority and minorities within contemporary Latvian society. The political elite are crucial actors in the politics of integration in Latvia. Postcolonial theories can help evaluate and explain the insufficiency of current integration policies in Latvia in respect to the participation of ethnic minorities in Latvia. Current integration challenges will be examined here based on two related issues of Latvian integration policies: (1) the process of naturalization and (2) the conflicting concepts of the twentieth-century Latvian history, especially the occupation in 1940. Both issues should be “revisited” using postcolonial explanatory potential in order to identify the causes of the long-lasting failure of integration policies in Latvia.     

TRANSLATING DEVELOPMENT AID INTO CITY MANAGEMENT: THE BARRIO ACAHUALINCA INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN MANAGUA,NICARAGUA

This article seeks to understand how development aid is translated into city management practice in the global South and the implications of this for the power dynamics between municipal governments and international aid agencies. The study examines La Chureca, the rubbish dump and slum of Managua, Nicaragua, and its regeneration programme, the Barrio Acahualinca Integrated Development Programme. In the article, we explore the formulation and initial implementation of the Programme in terms of the construction of an action net in which, by a chain of translations, the Programme was transformed from an aid programme managed by international aid organisations into the management practice of the city of Managua. Despite the silent infiltration of important issues brought to the municipal political agenda by the development aid programme, small acts of defiance and resistance were also enacted by local actors who twisted the Programme to fit local needs. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoons in question: stances,translational narratives and identity construction from a cross-linguistic perspective

ABSTRACT

Charlie Hebdo, a synonym for the universal cause of liberty and freedom of the Press, gained international attention after the terrorist attack of January 2015. However, Charlie Hebdo through its particular humour, which is both culture-bound and ideology-oriented, triggered anger and indignation, mainly after the publication of cartoons portraying little Aylan, the symbol of refugees’ tragedy, and in particular, the one which depicted him as “an ass groper”. This article sets out to investigate from a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural viewpoint reactions that the most controversial cartoon triggered, while considering both the socio-political context of the event and examining the crisscrossing and competing narratives it gave rise to. In doing so, the study draws heavily on the narrative theory of translation [Baker, Mona. 2006. Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account. London: Routledge, Baker, Mona. 2007. “Reframing Conflict in Translation.” Social Semiotics 17 (2): 151–169, Baker, Mona. 2010. “Narratives of Terrorism and Security: ‘Accurate’ Translations, Suspicious Frames’.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 3 (3): 347–364] and uses concepts and methods from Critical Discourse Analysis, and semiotic approaches to cartoon translation. Working with a trilingual corpus composed of articles from various French, English and Greek online newspapers and blogs, it first delineates the theoretical framework, the methodological approach applied and then it proceeds with the analysis of stancetaking as deployed in headlines and examines from a contrastive viewpoint the competing translational narratives in English and Greek data.