基于语料库的记者招待会汉英口译中情态动词的应用研究  

A Corpus-based Study of Modal Verbs in Chinese-English Government Press Conference Interpretation

作　　者：李鑫[1] 胡开宝[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海交通大学外国语学院,上海200240

出　　处：《外语电化教学》2013年第3期26-32,74,共8页Technology Enhanced Foreign Language Education

基　　金：上海交通大学文理交叉基金重点项目"当代英汉/汉英平行语料库的创建与应用研究"(编号10JCY06)的阶段性成果

摘　　要：本文基于自建语料库,考察了记者招待会汉英口译中情态动词的使用特征及其动因。研究表明,与美国政府记者招待会原创语料相比,中国政府记者招待会汉英口译中过多使用高值和中高值情态动词,过少使用表示委婉语气的较低值情态动词以及情态动词缩略式。从情态动词的语义类型分布来看,口译英语过多使用义务情态而过少使用认识情态。本文认为,记者招待会汉英口译中情态动词的使用特征背后主要有三大动因:中美政府记者招待会语篇的话语基调差异、汉英语法差异和口译译员的主体性。The present study investigates the use of modal verbs in Chinese-English government press conference （GPC） interpretation based on the latest version of Chinese-English Conference Interpreting Corpus （ CECIC 3.0）. The result shows that compared with the original English （OE） at the U.S. GPCs, the Chinese-English GPC Interpretation displays an overuse of strong modals （will, shall, should and mu^t） and an underuse of weak modals （ would, might, and could）. Incidentally we find that the contracted forms of will and would, i.e. ＇ll and ＇d, are remarkably underused in the interpreted English （IE） texts. In terms of the modality type, there is an overuse of deontic modals and an underuse of epistemic modals in the IE texts. This paper proposes that the distinctive patterns of the use of modal verbs in the Chinese-English GPC interpretation can be explained by the tenor difference between the Chinese GPC and the U. S. GPC texts, the implicit nature of the Chinese grammar, and the interpreter＇s subiectivitv.

关 键 词：记者招待会 汉英口译 语料库 情态动词 

分 类 号：H315.9[语言文字—英语]