Abstract:

The English series Legends of the Condor Heroes was produced via a collaborative translation effort, and the translators’ behaviors jointly determined the communication effect. In this article, the Translator Behavior Trinity Evaluation System and three semantic frameworks of translation criticism are combined for the first time to compare the translator behavior of Anna Holmwood and Gigi Chang based on their translations of the English series Legends of the Condor Heroes. The results revealed that, according to the semantic framework of behavior criticism from the perspective of behavior-text and the semantic framework of text criticism according to the perspective of text-language, the two translators exhibited different behaviors due to having diff erent identities. As a result of having a dual social role as a translator and as a copyright agent, Holmwood paid particular attention to the acceptability of the translation and her translator behavior tended to be utility-attaining. Having a dual social identity as a translator and as a member of the Chinese diasporic community, Chang attached importance to the adequacy of the translation; hence, her translator behavior tended to be truth-seeking. Despite these differences, based on the semantic framework of eff ect criticism according to the perspective of behavior-society, the two translators’ English translations were evaluated positively in the English-speaking world, which revealed the eff ective communication of the English series Legends of the Condor Heroes.

Keywords: the English series Legends of the Condor Heroes; Anna Holmwood; Gigi Chang; translator behavior criticism; translation criticism

摘要：

《射雕英雄传》英译系列通过合作翻译完成，译者的行为共同决定了作品译介传播的效果。本文将译者行为三位一体评价系统和翻译批评三大语义框架相结合，基于《射雕英雄传》系列卷一的郝玉青独译本和卷二的张菁独译本，比较两位译者的译者行为。研究发现，在“行为-文本视域”下的行为批评框架和“文本-语言视域”下的文本批评框架内，郝玉青在译者和版权代理商的双重社会身份下，更注重译文的接受度，译者行为偏向“务实”；张菁在译者和离散华人的双重社会身份下，更注重译文的充分性，译者行为偏向“求真”。但在“行为-社会视域”下的效果批评框架内，两位译者的英译本均在英语读者市场中取得较高的正向评价，从而确保了《射雕英雄传》英译系列的传播效果。

关键词: 《射雕英雄传》英译系列, 郝玉青, 张菁, 译者行为批评, 翻译批评