SLshiningthroughintranslationallanguageAcorpus-解读.ppt

“SL shining through” in translational language: A corpus-based study of Chinese translation of English passives Guangrong Dai Richard Xiao Translationese An increasing body of evidence has been put forward that shows that translational language is different from comparable native target language E.g. Frawley 1984, Hartmann 1985, Baker 1993, Toury 1995, Gellerstam 1996, Laviosa 1997; Hansen & Teich 2001, McEnery & Xiao 2002, 2007, Xiao 2010 A major distinguishing feature of translationese is probably its “regular association” with and “traces of interference” of the source language (Toury 1995:208, 276) SL Shining Through Teich (2003) also suggests that one of the factors that makes translations different from comparable texts in the same language as the TL is that the source language—to a greater or lesser extent—shines through in translation “In a translation into a given target language (TL), the translation may be oriented more towards the source language (SL), i.e. the SL shines through” (Teich 2003: 145) SL Shining Through She finds that both English translations from German and German translations from English differ from English original texts and German original texts, respectively, both exhibiting a mixture of TL normalization and SL shining through (Teich 2003: 207). SL Shining Through as a TU? If the feature of SL shining through which has been reported on the basis of translated English and German can be generalized as one of translational universals, it is of vital importance to find supporting evidence from non-European languages Clearly, evidence from “genetically” distinct language pairs such as English and Chinese is arguably more convincing, if not indispensable. Objective of this study To investigate whether SL shining through exists in English-to-Chinese translation, and if so, to what extent, via a case study of the use of passives constructions in balanced comparable corpora of native and translated Chinese as well as English-Chi