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1、TranslationStudiesIntroductiontothetheoryoftranslationKrisztinaKároly,Spring,2006Sources:Klaudy,2003;Baker,1998Thenatureofthetranslator’sactivity=creativeactivityThetranslatorfacesanumberofchoicesanddecisions.decisionsarepartlysubjective,partlyobjective(s
2、omeofthetranslator’ssubjectivechoicesarebasedonobjectivefactors)“theirambitiontoexplaintranslationphenomenaandcreatetheoriesiscloselyrelatedtotheverynatureofthisactivity,regulated,ontheonehand,bycertainobjectiverules,andpermitting,ontheother,anumberofsubj
3、ectivechoices”(Klaudy,2003,p.23)Themediumofthetranslator’sactivity=twolanguagescommunicatingintwoLsatthesametimecanneverbeasinstinctiveandunconsciousascommunicatingonlyinoneintranslation,eventhemostinstinctivetranslatordevelopsideasabouttherelationshipbet
4、weenthetwoLs,theirsimilaritiesanddifferences,theirrelationshipwithreality,thesimilaritiesanddifferencesinthewaythetwoLssegmentrealitylinguistically,etc.Theobjectofthetranslator’sactivity=thetextTheoriesarerelatedtotheobjectofthetranslator’sactivity,i.e.th
5、etext,becauseeverytext(e.g.,apieceofliterature,ascientificresearcharticle,anadvertisementoraneditorial),allowsforseveralpossibleinterpretationsthetranslatoroftenhastodefendhisowninterpretationofthetextagainstthepotentiallydifferinginterpretationsofcritics
6、,readers,andthepublicatlarge.Istherecontinuityinthetheoryoftranslation?Practicingtranslatorswilloftenmakespontaneouscontrastivelinguisticobservations(”HungarianprefersverbsasopposedtoIndo-Europeanlanguageswhichprefernouns.”)spontaneoustext-linguisticobser
7、vations(”ThesentencesofIndo-EuropeanlanguagesstartwithalongerintroductorypartthanthecorrespondingHungariansentencesandhavetobeshortenedintheHungariantranslation”or”English,German,andRussiantextsaremoreimpersonalthanHungariantexts.”)spontaneousstylisticobs
8、ervations(”EnglishscientifictextsarelikesmalltalkcomparedtoGermanscientifictext”),orspontaneoussociolinguisticobservations(”RussianslikediminutivesuffixesbetterthanHungarians.”)werenotpooledforcenturies!Theideaofan
