关键词: 主体意识; 客体意识; 汉英翻译策略

Abstract: In Chinese discourses, from the perspective of events, packaged in a clause in the sense of systemic-functional grammar, it is found that there are linguistically represented events or elements in events featuring subjectivity and/ or that  cohesiveness between events is maintained by languages derived from subjectivity. In other words, the Chinese subjectivity is represented in discourse as subjective creation of events, identification or use of event elements, or cohering events by subjective means. This research examines the vague Chinese account of realities using words with fuzzy meaning for some pragmatic purposes, especially those unrealistically supported Chinese depictions of objects from the perspective  of unidentified persons and the use of Chinese perception verbs for the textual coherence because of their role in bridging the gap between the events narrated from the subjective and objective perspectives. It finds that Chinese narrators may leave room pragmatically for a subjective manipulation or identification of objects including emotional, temporal and spacialtical  distances between participants, objects or events. Hence, this paper concludes with two types of translation strategy after a description of Chinese-into-English translations resulting from translators’ transfer from the Chinese way of thinking to the English: (a) deleting or readjusting the whole subjectively created event linguistically; (b) deleting or readjusting the subjectively created elements in an event linguistically. In sum, this research gives a more detailed description of Chinese discourse featuring subjectivity and enhances translators’ understanding of Chinese-into-English translation strategy worded as “keeping intact the facts by discarding the subjectively created events or elements”.

Keywords: subjective consciousness; objective consciousness; Chinese-into-English translation strategy