论接受理论对于翻译研究的解释力  

Reception Theory as an Explanatory Tool in Translation Studies

作　　者：胡开宝[1] 胡世荣[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海交通大学翻译与词典学研究中心,上海200240

出　　处：《中国翻译》2006年第3期10-14,共5页Chinese Translators Journal

摘　　要：任何文本的翻译都涉及文本的接受,译者是特殊的读者。因此,以文本接受为研究对象的接受理论对于翻译研究无疑具有解释力。然而,由于翻译与文本接受,译者与普通读者之间的差异,接受理论不能机械地套用于翻译研究。我们认为应在深刻理解和消化的基础上,在翻译研究领域合理运用接受理论,避免陷入一些认识上的误区。接受理论告诉我们:1)翻译文本可视为源语文本的意义潜势与译者前理解或期待视野相互作用的产物,不存在所谓终极性译本。2)作为文本的召唤结构,源语文本的意义空白与未定性不应随意填补。当不得不对这些空白和未定性进行具体化时,应注意具体化的恰当性。3)译者是翻译活动的主体,并非其中心或主宰。4)译本读者在翻译文本的接受与效应史中发挥着决定性作用,但对具体翻译活动的影响却不是决定性的。Since translation involves the reception of texts, with the translator as a special reader, reception theory is necessarily relevant to translation studies, There axe, however, marked differences between translation and reception of texts and between the translator and the reader, These differences demand that we guard against the pitfall of mapping reception theory onto translation studies mechanically, If properly applied, reception theory could yield four major insights into translation. First, the translated text is the product of an interaction between the meaning potential of the source text and the translator＇s horizon of expectations, and no ＂ultimate version＂ of the translated text hence exists. Secondly, as the appeal structures of the text, the blanks and indeterminacies are to be concretized only when the reader is not able to understand them. Thirdly, the translator is not the center of translation, but its subject. And finally, the reader of the translated text plays a decisive role in the reception of translated texts, rather than in the translation of texts.

关 键 词：接受理论 翻译研究 解释力 文本意义 研究对象 

分 类 号：H059[语言文字—语言学]