譯文中“源語透過效應”研究——基於語料庫的英譯漢被動句研究^*

戴光榮    肖忠華

Source: Translation Quarterly. 2011 (62):85-107

（文章出处：《翻譯季刊》2011年第62卷 第85-107页）

English Title:

“SL Shining Through” in Translational Language: A Corpus-based Study of Chinese Translation of English Passives (by Dai Guangrong, Xiao Zhonghua)

Abstract:

This study investigates one of thetranslational language characteristics—Source Language Shining Through (SLShining Through)—with the help of corpora. The translational language as a “third code” has beenfound to be different from both source and target languages. Recent studieshave proposed a number of translation universal (TU) hypotheses which include,for example, simplification, explicitation and normalization. As translation is a result oftext-induced production, possible interference of the source language on the targetlanguage may make translation a special kind of text. The “SL shining through” hypothesis is put forward by Teich (2003)based on comparative analyses of Englishtranslations of German texts and German translations of English texts. If thisfeature of translational language that has been reported on the basis of thetwo closely related European languages is to be generalized as one oftranslational universals, it is of vital importance to find supporting evidencefrom non-European languages. The evidence from genetically distinct language pairssuch as English and Chinese is arguably more convincing. This study presents adetailed case study of English passive constructions and their Chinesetranslations based on comparable corpora and parallel corpora. This researchexplores a new aspect of TUs and offers another perspective for translationstudies.

*本研究得到如下專案資助：國家社科基金一般項目“基於語料庫的英漢翻譯語言特徵量化研究”(07BYY011)與國家社科基金青年基金項目“基於語料庫的譯文‘源語透過效應’研究”（10CYY005），以及福建省教育廳社科基金A類項目（JA10206S），特此鳴謝。