从关联理论看雁荡山旅游资料的文化翻译

论文摘要

旅游资料是传播祖国文化、吸引潜在的海外旅游者到旅游目的地的一个重要媒介。因此,在将中文旅游宣传资料翻译成英文时,应把它们视为跨文化交际行为。为了旅游资料达到文化传播的目的,我们有必要找到一种能运用到旅游资料翻译中的恰当的理论。关联理论就是这样一种理论。根据关联理论的原理,作者首先从跨文化交际的角度分析了中西方在文化上的不同,通过雁荡山旅游资料的英译为例,对比研究了旅游资料中汉语及英语在语言结构,语言风格和文化上的差异。作者把旅游翻译看成是一个明示——推理的交际过程,论述了将关联理论运用于旅游资料翻译中的可行性。在此基础之上,作者强调了提高跨文化意识的必要性,并提出了处理旅游资料中不同信息的策略和方法,比如翻译中常出现的四字结构,明喻,暗喻等。在具体处理过程中,译者有必要在旅游资料翻译中采取解释,增删,文化替代等补偿手法。当然,作为一种比较新的翻译理论,关联理论还不能解决旅游资料翻译中的所有翻译问题,但从对雁荡山旅游资料的英译案例的分析中可以证明关联理论对翻译理论和实践的解释力。因此,译者在进行跨文化的旅游英语翻译时,应该有意识的运用关联理论,以提高译文质量,最大限度的实现翻译活动的成功。

论文目录

• Acknowledgements
• 中文摘要
• Abstract
• Contents
• Ⅰ Introduction
• 1.1 Research Objective
• 1.2 General Structures
• 1.3 Data Collection and Methodology
• Ⅱ Literature Review
• 2.1 Theoretical Framework—A Review of Relevance Theory
• 2.1.1 Traditional Models—the Code Model and Inferential Model
• 2.1.2 Ostensive-inferential Communication
• 2.1.3 Cognitive Environment
• 2.1.4 Mutual-manifestness
• 2.1.5 Relevance,the Principle of Relevance and the Optimal Relevance
• 2.1.6 Contextual Effects and Cognitive Effort
• 2.2 Previous Research on the Translation from a Cross-cultural Perspective
• 2.3 Previous Research on the Tourism Material Translation
• Ⅲ Application of RT to Tourism Material Translation
• 3.1 Functions of Tourism Materials
• 3.2 Different Characteristics of Chinese and English Tourism Materials
• 3.3 Feasibility of the Application of RT to Tourism Material Translation
• 3.3.1 Definitions of Culture and Translation
• 3.3.2 The Relationship between Language and Culture
• 3.3.3 The Relationship between Tourism Material Translation and Culture
• 3.3.4 Improvement of Intercultural Awareness
• 3.3.5 Tourism Material Translation:One Kind of Bicultural Communication
• 3.4 Effectiveness of Application of RT to Tourism Material Translation
• 3.4.1 Tourism Material Translation:A Communicative Process of Ostensive-inference
• 3.4.2 Cognitive Environment as the Base of Tourism Material Translation
• 3.4.3 Mutual-Manifestness as the Indispensable Condition for the Tourism Material Translation
• Ⅳ Cultural Translation of Tourism Materials in View of RT
• 4.1 Translation of the Names of Scenic Spots in the Yandang Mountain
• 4.2 The Techniques Consistent with the Principle of RT
• 4.2.1 Literal Translation
• 4.2.2 Explanation
• 4.2.3 Addition
• 4.2.4 Cultural Substitution
• 4.2.5 Reduction and Adjusting
• Ⅴ Conclusion
• Bibliography
• 作者简历