关键词: 制度化译者; “求真—务实”译者行为连续统评价模式;; 沙博理; 葛浩文

Abstract:

Translation, with the goal of achieving human communication, is a cross-cultural activity of ideas exchange and social production through the medium of various systems of language symbols. Translation as an activity of social production has two attributes of being institutionalized and market-driven. The two attributes are illustrated in the form of institutionalized translation and of market-driven translation, performed respectively by institutionalized translators and market-driven translators. In recent years, Chinese scholar Professor Zhou Lingshun proposes a theoretical framework of translator’s behavioral criticism to observe translation activity from both within and without the text. This framework emphasizes the social identity of the translator on the basis of traditional text analysis. From the perspective of the “truth-seeking-utility-attaining” model of continuum of evaluation towards translator’s behavior, this paper probes into the differences illustrated through comparing the two translated versions of Xue Ye and Ci Lu Hu De You Yu by Duanmu Hongliang. The two versions are translated by the institutionalized translator Sidney Shapiro and the market-driven translator Howard Goldblatt, who are representative of the two types of translators. Through comparison, the paper analyzes the inclination of lingual truth-seeking and social utility-attaining so as to reveal the root underlying their behavior of translation.

Keywords: institutionalized translator; “truth-seeking-utility-attaining” model of continuum of evaluation towards translator’s behavior;; Sidney Shapiro; Howard Goldblatt