The translation theory of Lawrence Venuti 勞倫斯 韋努蒂的翻譯理論

TheTranslationTheoryofLawrenceVenuti2021/6/271TheTranslationTheoryofLawrenceVenutiThreeMainWorksRethinkingTranslation:Discourse,Subjectivity,Ideology(1992)反思翻譯：語篇，主體性與意識形態(tài)TheTranslator’sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation(1995)譯者的隱形：一部翻譯史TheScandalofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifference(1998)翻譯的丑聞：差異的倫理2021/6/272TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslationVenutiusestheterm“invisibility”todescribethepositionoftranslatorsinAnglo-Americanculture英美文化.Andhethinksitisnotfairforthetranslatorstobeinthesecondaryposition,butshouldbevisibleinthetranslation.Sohecriticizesthetraditionalcanonofdomesticaltranslation,whichleadstothefluentandtransparenttranslation,andadvocatedtheforeignizingtranslation.2021/6/273TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation“Faithfulrenditionisdefinedpartlybytheillusionoftransparency”.Foreignizingtranslationis“l(fā)ikelytoencounteroppositionfrompublishersandlargesegmentsofAnglophonereaderswhoreadforimmediateintelligibility”.Thisleadstoaclimateinwhich"fluency"isthemostimportantqualityforatranslationandalltracesofforeignnessoralterity他異性tendtobepurposelyerased.2021/6/274TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslationAccordingtoVenuti,thedomesticatingstrategy“violently”erasestheculturalvaluesandthuscreatesatextwhichasifhadbeenwritteninthetargetlanguageandwhichfollowstheculturalnormsofthetargetreader.“Anethnodeviantpressure反我族主義的壓力on[target-languagecultural]valuestoregisterthelinguisticandculturaldifferenceoftheforeigntext,sendingthereaderabroad（Venuti,1995:20）.”“ForeignizingtranslationinEnglishcanbeaformofresistanceagainstethnocentrismandracism,culturalnarcissim文化自戀andimperialism,intheinterestofdemocraticgeopoliticalrelations（Venuti,1995:20）.”2021/6/275TheScandalsofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifferenceDomesticationandforeignizationdealwith“thequestionofhowmuchatranslationassimilatesaforeigntexttothetranslatinglanguageandculture,andhowmuchitrathersignalsthedifferencesofthattext"(Wikipedia).Accordingto

LawrenceVenuti,everytranslatorshouldlookatthetranslationprocessthroughtheprism棱鏡ofculturewhichrefracts折射thesourcelanguageculturalnormsanditisthetranslator’stasktoconveythem,preservingtheirmeaningandtheirforeignness,tothetarget-languagetext.2021/6/276TheScandalsofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifferenceVenuticontinuestoinsistonforeignizingor“minoritizing”translation,tocultivateavariedand“heterogeneous異種的discourse”(Venuti1998:11).Thusanadequatetranslationwouldbetheonethatwouldhighlighttheforeignnessofthesourcetextandinsteadofallowingthedominanttargetculturetoassimilatethedifferencesofthesourceculture,itshouldrathersignalthesedifferences.2021/6/277SummaryLawrenceVenutiadvocatedtheforeignizingtranslationandrefusedthefluentversion.Heinsistedinpresentingthedifferencesoftheoriginalintranslations.Theresistancetranslationisagainsttheethnocentrismandracism,culturalnarcissimandimperialism.2021/6/278References:1.Venuti,Lawrence,TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation.London: