从思维角度谈汉英翻译中语篇连贯问题.docVIP

从思维角度谈汉英翻译中语篇连贯问题 　　【摘 要】翻译作为一种跨文化活动，不仅涉及两种语言，也涉及两种截然不同的文化。中西文化的差异造成的两种语言在表达方式上的区别往往是许多翻译人员在翻译过程中容易忽视或力不从心之处。 　　【关键词】语篇连贯；汉英翻译；文化；思维 　　Robert Kaplan，American 1inguist，the westerners mode of thought is primarily a Platonic-Aristotelian train of thought，descended from the philosophers of ancient Greece，and concreted by Roman，Medieval European，and later western thinkers.Shen Xiaolong states，the western nations have been accustomed to laying stress on formal logic and abstract thinking since the ancient Greece.Therefore the chief characteristic of the English mode of thinking is known as abstraction in particular， Shen also finds out that western people gradually formed the habit of individual thinking instead of unity of thinking.Formal analytical patterns of thought have always been dominant in western philosophical history.The Very different thinking modes of the people as well as the great dissimilarity in history， religious tradition，philosophy，language and culture bring about problems to people in cross—cultural communication. 　　1.Different modes of thought result in dissimilar ways of expression 　　There exists great difference between Chinese mode of thought and western mode of thought，and the linguistic systems of English and Chinese languages have varied characteristics respectively. One uses ideographs，while the other uses the alphabets.One is paratactic，and the other is hypotactic.The Chinese mode of thought has created many gray areas on the Chinese language expression.To be harmonic and for it to be balanced it nevertheless can be Vague sometimes.Vagueness however does not mean that the language expressed is lacking in quality，but that it is hampered by nuances in meanings.Greatly influenced by its mode of thought， western rhetoric values explicitness and directness.Clarity，concreteness and completeness are also highly emphasized.On the other hand，in western rhetorical framework，vagueness and implicitness are viewed negatively：they are considered inef