The translation theory of Lawrence Venuti 劳伦斯 韦努蒂的翻译理论

TheTranslationTheoryofLawrenceVenuti2021/6/271TheTranslationTheoryofLawrenceVenutiThreeMainWorksRethinkingTranslation:Discourse,Subjectivity,Ideology(1992)反思翻译：语篇，主体性与意识形态TheTranslator’sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation(1995)译者的隐形：一部翻译史TheScandalofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifference(1998)翻译的丑闻：差异的伦理2021/6/272TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslationVenutiusestheterm“invisibility”todescribethepositionoftranslatorsinAnglo-Americanculture英美文化.Andhethinksitisnotfairforthetranslatorstobeinthesecondaryposition,butshouldbevisibleinthetranslation.Sohecriticizesthetraditionalcanonofdomesticaltranslation,whichleadstothefluentandtransparenttranslation,andadvocatedtheforeignizingtranslation.2021/6/273TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation“Faithfulrenditionisdefinedpartlybytheillusionoftransparency”.Foreignizingtranslationis“likelytoencounteroppositionfrompublishersandlargesegmentsofAnglophonereaderswhoreadforimmediateintelligibility”.Thisleadstoaclimateinwhich"fluency"isthemostimportantqualityforatranslationandalltracesofforeignnessoralterity他异性tendtobepurposelyerased.2021/6/274TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslationAccordingtoVenuti,thedomesticatingstrategy“violently”erasestheculturalvaluesandthuscreatesatextwhichasifhadbeenwritteninthetargetlanguageandwhichfollowstheculturalnormsofthetargetreader.“Anethnodeviantpressure反我族主义的压力on[target-languagecultural]valuestoregisterthelinguisticandculturaldifferenceoftheforeigntext,sendingthereaderabroad（Venuti,1995:20）.”“ForeignizingtranslationinEnglishcanbeaformofresistanceagainstethnocentrismandracism,culturalnarcissim文化自恋andimperialism,intheinterestofdemocraticgeopoliticalrelations（Venuti,1995:20）.”2021/6/275TheScandalsofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifferenceDomesticationandforeignizationdealwith“thequestionofhowmuchatranslationassimilatesaforeigntexttothetranslatinglanguageandculture,andhowmuchitrathersignalsthedifferencesofthattext"(Wikipedia).Accordingto

LawrenceVenuti,everytranslatorshouldlookatthetranslationprocessthroughtheprism棱镜ofculturewhichrefracts折射thesourcelanguageculturalnormsanditisthetranslator’stasktoconveythem,preservingtheirmeaningandtheirforeignness,tothetarget-languagetext.2021/6/276TheScandalsofTranslation:TowardsanEthicsofDifferenceVenuticontinuestoinsistonforeignizingor“minoritizing”translation,tocultivateavariedand“heterogeneous异种的discourse”(Venuti1998:11).Thusanadequatetranslationwouldbetheonethatwouldhighlighttheforeignnessofthesourcetextandinsteadofallowingthedominanttargetculturetoassimilatethedifferencesofthesourceculture,itshouldrathersignalthesedifferences.2021/6/277SummaryLawrenceVenutiadvocatedtheforeignizingtranslationandrefusedthefluentversion.Heinsistedinpresentingthedifferencesoftheoriginalintranslations.Theresistancetranslationisagainsttheethnocentrismandracism,culturalnarcissimandimperialism.2021/6/278References:1.Venuti,Lawrence,TheTranslator'sInvisibility:AHistoryofTranslation.London: