臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

為了探討臺灣譯者如何處理美國黑人方言英語，本研究採用雙語語料庫翻譯研究方法，所建構之平行語料庫包含艾莉絲．華克 (Alice Walker) 在《紫色姐妹花》(The Color Purple) 一書中所使用之黑人英文，以及張慧倩、藍祖蔚、施寄青等三位臺灣譯者的中文譯文。首先藉由WordSmith軟體4.0版取得文本長度的量化結果，張版和藍版的譯文都比原文版本長，由於刪減部分同性關係的段落，施版譯文較短，若原文同樣的段落不予計算，可發現施版仍比原文長。接著再透過ParaConc軟體，從已建立的平行語料庫進行中文譯者處理黑人方言句法特徵的研究。分析結果顯示，由於黑人方言與中文語言句法特徵之差異，三位中文譯者皆使用道地的中文詞彙或片語，通順的中文譯文無法顯現黑人方言的語言特色。艾莉絲．華克以黑人方言撰寫小說，再現書中主角Celie語言的豐富性與獨特性。但是，因為譯者使用「歸化」(domestication) 翻譯策略，使三個中文譯本皆無法呈現Celie語言風格。Lawrence Venuti指出，歸化策略經常使譯文讀者無法得知原文的特色，對此黑人方言語言特性消失於譯文的現象，筆者建議，若譯文未能呈現黑人方言英語的語言特色，應透過譯序或譯跋告知中文讀者原語小說中的語言特性。

This paper aims to adopt a bilingual parallel corpus-based approach to investigate the choices made by translators on the Chinese rendering of African-American Vernacular English. In this study, the English-Chinese Parallel Corpus of African-American Vernacular English (PCAAVE) consists of Alice Walker’s use of African-American Vernacular English in The Color Purple and its three Chinese translations in Taiwan by Hui-qian Chang (張慧倩), Zu-wei Lan (藍祖蔚) and Ji-qing Shi (施寄青). WordSmith Tools version 4.0 is first employed to examine the textual length of each translation. Both Chang (52,709) and Lan’s translations (59,869) are longer than the original (52,145). Because of her omission of passages about homosexual relationship, Shi’s translation is shorter than the original. If the passages Shi has omitted are also deleted from Walker’s original, there contains more words in Shi’s translation (50,910) than in the source text (47,944). In order to examine how the three Chinese translators deal with the unique syntactic features of African-American Vernacular English, ParaConc is then utilized to investigate the renderings of seven syntactic features of African-American Vernacular English in the three Chinese translations. The result shows that the three Chinese translators tend to produce a fluent translation with Chinese idiomatical expressions or adverbial phrases, due to the syntactic disparities between African-American Vernacular English and Chinese. The three Chinese translators fail to represent Celie’s African-American Vernacular English. Lawrence Venuti indicates that the domestication strategy often results in a phenomenon that the foreignness of the source text is often minimized. This study suggests that if the characteristics of African-American Vernacular English cannot be manifested in the Chinese translation, translators should inform Chinese readers of the linguistic uniqueness of the fiction in translation preface or postscript.

Abstract…………………………………………………………………i
摘要……………………………………………………………………iii
Acknowledgement………………………………………………………iv
Table of Contents……………………………………………………v
List of Tables…………………………………………………………………vii
List of Figures………………………………………………………………viii
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………….1
1.1 An Introduction to the Author and the Fiction...................................................1
1.2 Three Translation Versions……………………….3
1.3 The Three Translations.......................4
1.4 Research Motivation…………………………......5
1.5 Research Objectives………………………………..7
1.6 Research Questions………………………………….7
1.7 Outline of the Thesis……………………………..7
Chapter 2 LITERATURE REVIEW……………………………………...9
2.1 Language Style and Rhetorical Patterns in African-American Vernacular English.......................9
2.1.1 Syntactic Features of African-American Vernacular English…………......................10
2.1.2 Translation of African-American Vernacular English…………...............................14
2.2 The Rise of Corpus-based Translation Studies..................................................17
2.3 Venuti’s Domestication and Foreignization..19
Chapter 3 METHODOLOGY…………………………................21
3.1 Corpus Design and Search Criteria…………….21
3.2 Corpus Processing Software—WordSmith & ParaConc.................................................26
3.2.1 WordSmith.............................29
3.2.2 ParaConc..............................36
Chapter 4 FINDINGS & DISCUSSION……………................40
4.1 Textual length…..………………………………..40
4.2 Negation………………………………………......41
4.2.1 General Negation…………………….41
4.2.2 Negative Inversion………………….45
4.2.3 Double or Multiple Negation………47
4.3 Omission of Inflected Forms…………………….51
4.4 Wh-Questions………………………………………..53
4.5 Copula……………………………………..........57
4.6 Future Events……………………………………….60
4.7 Present Perfect Tense…………………………….62
4.8 Events in Progress…………………………………64
4.9 Summary of the Quantitative Analysis…………66
Chapter 5 CONCLUSION……………………………………………….70
5.1 Domestication or Foreignization?..........................................70
5.2 Feasible Solutions?...............................................72
5.3 Suggestions for Further Research............74
REFERENCES…………………………………………………………….77
APPENDIX……………………………………………………………….81

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