翻译理论 Ch9 The role of the translator.ppt

Chapter 9The role of the translator:visibility, ethics and sociology Date: 2010/ 11/ 24 9.0 Introduction This chapter focuses on: The position and involvement of the translator Others involved in the translation process. Key concepts (part 1) Venuti’s ‘invisibilty’ of the translator (9.1.1) Venuti’s ‘foreignizing’ ‘domesticating’ translation strategies (9.1.2) Berman’s ‘negative analytic’ of translation (9.1.3) 9.1 The cultural and political agenda (目標) of translation Venuti insists that translation studies should be broadened to take account of the value-driven (價值趨動) nature of the sociocultural framework. Venuti contests Toury’s DTS due to its aim of producing ‘value-free’ norms of translation. ?Toury’s method must still turn to cultural theory in order to analyze the norms.( Norms: linguistic / literary ? values, beliefs ? ideological force of specific groups) 9.1.1 Venuti and the ‘invisibility’ of the translator (譯者的隱形) Invisibility: the translator’s situation and activity in contemporary Anglo-American culture. Two ways: (1) the way translators tend to translate ‘fluently’ ‘readable’ 流暢、易讀 ? illsusion of transparency (透明的幻覺) (2) the way the TT are read/expected in the TC TT is considered acceptable when it reads fluently ? TT is seen as derivative and secondary. 9.1.2 Domestication Foreignization(歸化 和 異化) Venuti discusses invisibility with DF strategies.? can be traced back to Schleiermacher (Ch2)? choice of text translation method D- dominates Anglo-American translation culture. ? an ethnocentric reduction of the ST to TC values (1)Translating in an ‘invisible’ style in order to  minimize the foreignness of TT. (2)Domestication further covers adherence to domestic canons by carefully selecting the texts. Foreignization excludes dominant cultural values in TC. ‘an ethnodeviant pressure on values to show the differences of the SC, sending the reader abroad.’ Foreignization can restrain the ‘violently’ domesticating va