基于文化因素的译性探讨.doc

介］方荣文，男，陕西安康人，西安科技大学人文与外语学院讲师，研究方向: 英语教学与研究。 Limitation of Translatability Based on the Culture Factors ○ Fang Rongwen ( Xi’an University of Science and Technology，Xi’an，Shaanxi，710054) ［Abstract］ The generalities of human being and their languages compose the basis of translatability． However， translatability dose not absolute． Especially because of the different cultures，it becomes very difficult for translator to achieve absolute identity． The untranslatability，i． e． the problem of the limitation of translation occurs． The untranslatable factors will be reduced along with the development of culture － awareness． ［Key words］ translatability， culture difference， limitation， culture －awareness ［中图分类号］H315． 6 ［文献标识码］A ［文章编号］1672-8610(2011)10-0079-02 I． Introduction Similar to the generality of human being，there are always some generalities or similarities in different languages． For example，the smallest unit of expressing thought is sentence，each sentence usually consists of subject，predicate，object，attribute and adverbial． All these general characters of human being and their languages compose the basis of translatability．However there is always some distance between target lan-guage text and source language text． Especially culture factors greatly affect translation． Differences caused by culture result in a lot of untranslatable phenomena，which are actually the prob-lems of the limitation of translatability． This paper only attempts to probe into a couple of debatable issues in translation with re-gard to culture． Ⅱ． Untranslatability based on culture The research of the specific property of linguistic culture includes plentiful contents． It involves a series of changeable factors，such as national psychological ideology潜意识，culture developing process，historical custom 历史习俗and geographical style and features． According to the famous translation theorist Eugene A． Nida， linguistic culture is different because of different ecological envi- ronment，material culture envi