关键词: 莎士比亚戏剧; 重言; 概念整合; 翻译策略

Abstract:

As a remarkable stylistic marker, hendiadys in Shakespeare’s plays usually elevates discourse and blurs its logic, however it is most congenial to Shakespeare’s purposes as he explored problematic depths of thought and feeling. Hendiadys derives its effect from its deviation from normal coordination patterns. More than a rhetorical device, hendiadys is an impressive cognitive method, however to date few studies have focused on hendiadys. With strong explanatory power, Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) has been applied to rhetoric and translation studies in recent years. With the aim of decoding hendiadys’s semantic complexity, this paper applies Conceptual Blending Theory to hendiadys translation strategies. This paper takes Shakespeare’s plays and their cultural schemata as STS, Chinese expressions and its cultural schemata as TRS and the chosen Chinese versions (Zhu Shenghao, Liang Shiqiu, Sun Dayu and Bian Zhilin) as BTS. Then, based on four Chinese versions of Shakespeare’s plays, drawing from features of Shakespeare’s hendiadys, CBT and taking various projection methods into consideration, this paper suggests two translation strategies, i.e., semi-correspondence projection strategy and non-correspondence projection strategy, thus offering a new technique to research rhetorical devices in Shakespeare’s plays and corresponding translation strategies.

Keywords: Shakespeare’s plays; hendiadys; Conceptual Blending Theory; translation strategy