关键词: 自由间接话语; 直接引语; 语义连贯; 文体连贯; 翻译策略; 意识流小说

Abstract:

From the perspective of semantic and stylistic coherence, this paper first illustrates the unique textual coherence and stylistic effects produced by the opposition and contrast between free indirect discourse (FID) and direct speech in stream of consciousness literature, followed by a case study of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. It then compares two well-known translations of this novel in the Chinese language, and investigates the methods used to represent the characters’ speech in the process of translation. Based on the contrastive analysis of some typical examples of speech presentation in these two different translations and languages, it was found that many translators of the novel appeared to lack awareness of the semantic and stylistic coherence constructed by the different modes of speech presentation in the of stream of consciousness source text, as the translators often tended to simplify the language and the literary style, and merely simplified the language features of the source text in an attempt to make the translated texts easier to be read and interpreted by the target language readers. However, this approach greatly distorted the stream of consciousness style, and damaged the originally impressive narrative effect that was achieved by the opposition and contrast between FID and direct speech in the source text.

Keywords: free indirect discourse; direct speech; semantic coherence; stylistic coherence; translation strategies; stream of consciousness novels