翻译的阐释运作——George Steiner.docVIP

Guided Reading导读 George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, France. As a prolific author, essayist, literacy critic, and philosopher, he has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, particularly in light of modern history, and the impact of the Holocaust with his field primarily in comparative literature and his work as critic has tended toward exploring cultural and philosophical issues, particularly dealing with translation and the nature of language and literature. 乔治斯坦纳1929年生于法国巴黎，著作等身，在文学创造、语言评论和哲学方面均有很深造诣。他主要的研究领域为比较文学，写了大量关于在现代历史背景下语言、文学和社会关系，以及是大屠杀的社会影响方面的文章。在文学批评上，他的视角延伸向了文化与哲学，在翻译，语言和文学的本质问题上的观点独树一帜。 The word “hermeneutics” originates in old Greek and its Latin spelling is “hermeneuein”, meaning to understand. In the Middle Ages, it developed into hermeneutics of theology, as it applied to the interpretation of the decrees of God and records of antiquity. Through the reformation of the Renaissance, hermeneutics, applied for semantic explanations in rhetoric and poetics, evolved into a methodology contributed by the German Romantics, Schleiermacher (1786-1834) and Dilthey (1833-1911) who interpreted various texts of historical records in their work. Hermeneutics一词来源于古希腊，拉丁语的拼法为hermeneuein，意义为理解。在中世纪，这个词发展成了对神学的阐释，也就是对神旨以及历史记录的解读。经过文艺复兴时代的宗教改革，阐释学这个应用于修辞学和诗学上句法解释的词语，经过德国浪漫主义学派的哲学家施莱尔马赫91786-1834)和威廉狄尔泰’s After Babel is the key advance of the hermeneutics of translation. The hermeneutic approach defined by Steiner is “the investigation of what it means to understand a piece of oral or written speech, and the attempt to diagnose this process in terms of a general model of meaning…It gives the subject of translation a frankly philosophic aspect” (Steiner 1975:249). “Steiner’s initial focus is on the psychological and intellectual functioning of the mind of the translator, and he gives on to discuss the process of meaning and understanding underlying the translation process”( Munday 2001:163 ).His description of the her