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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2017.02.012

翻译研究

汉英时间意识和空间意识:翻译角度

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  • 华东理工大学,上海,200237
王建国,博士,华东理工大学外国语学院教授。主要研究方向为语言学、翻译学。电子邮箱:wangjianguo@ecust.edu.cn

网络出版日期: 2020-07-25

基金资助

*本文系2016度国家社科基金艺术类项目“中国少数民族电影的英译研究和数据库建设”(编号16BC035)以及2016年度中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助项目“基于莫言和川端康成英译比较的译者研究”(编号WS1522001)的阶段性成果。

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Differences between Chinese and English Consciousnesses of Time and Space: A C-E Translation Perspective

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Online published: 2020-07-25

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摘要

传统认为,汉人重视时间,英人重视空间,或相反。我们认为这两种观点都是片面的。造成这种现象的主要原因是考察因素不够全面。本文认为,无论是时间意识还是空间意识,英人都强于汉人;英语的空间意识强,在于英语句子和篇章表现出更强的层次感;英语的时间意识强,在于英语句子和篇章的时间界限定位准确。由于汉英语言所表现出的时空意识差异,尤其是汉语的时空意识较弱,汉英翻译中译者,尤其是汉语为母语的译者,常常遇到困扰,这也进一步表明了我们的发现是合理的。

关键词： 汉英时空意识差异; 句法证据; 篇章证据; 汉英翻译

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王建国 . 汉英时间意识和空间意识:翻译角度[J]. 当代外语研究, 2017 , 17(02) : 77 -81 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2017.02.012

Abstract

Chinese-speaking people were wrongly assumed to have stronger consciousness of time or space than English-speaking people, because of inadequate consideration of relevant factors. As a matter of fact, English-speaking people have stronger consciousness of both time and space, which is prominently reflected syntactically and textually. To be specific, verbs in an English sentence or text are prominently temporally and aspectually marked while not in Chinese; at the same time a sentence or text in English is hierarchically constructed with explicit subordination while not in Chinese. The findings are evidenced by the fact that Chinese-into-English translators, especially those whose mother tongue is Chinese, often encounter translation difficulties because of the differences between Chinese and English consciousnesses of time and space.

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