Abstracts
Abstract
This paper attempts to present a contrastive analysis of sets of translation of the same work, in the same language but of different versions, from a linguistic perspective, by means of Motion event. In analyzing the same, we attach great importance to the source text effect as well as the translator effect on the target text.
As suggested by Talmy (1985, 2000), different languages contain different systems of verbs of motion, which could be described by a universal pattern of its semantic elements: Figure, Ground, Motion, Path and Manner. Accordingly English and Chinese could be both classified as satellite-framed languages (the other alternative is verb-framed languages) (Talmy 2000). And in this wake, many researches flourish in different language contexts in hopes of validating the “linguistic relativity” hypothesis.
However, up to now, a linguistic adoption of Motion event has not been found in analyzing the possible source and translator effects underlying the translation works in the same language but of different versions. In this view, this paper tends to utilize this semantic category to analyze the above-mentioned effects as represented in David Hawkes, John Minford, and Xianyi Yang and Galdys Yang, in the light of their respective translatings of A Dream of Red Mansions (or the Story of the Stone).
Keywords/Mots-clés:
- motion event,
- source text effect,
- translator effect,
- A Dream of Red Mansions,
- cultures
Résumé
Cet article tente, dans une perspective linguistique, en utilisant la notion d’événement de déplacement, de présenter une analyse contrastive d’une série de traductions d’une même oeuvre, dans une même langue mais dans des versions différentes. En analysant le même objet, nous accordons une grande importance à l’impact du texte-source aussi bien qu’à l’impact du traducteur sur le texte-cible. Comme le suggère Talmy (1985 ; 2000), les différentes langues contiennent différents systèmes de verbes de mouvement, qui pourraient être décrits par un modèle universel de ces éléments sémantiques : figure, fond, mouvement, trajectoire et manière. Ainsi l’anglais et le chinois peuvent être tous les deux classifiés comme langues à satellites (d’un autre côté, on trouve les langues à cadre verbal) (Talmy 2000). Et dans ce sillage, de nombreuses recherches sur différentes langues s’épanouissent dans l’espoir de valider l’hypothèse de la « relativité linguistique ».
Cependant, jusqu’ici, l’adoption linguistique de la notion d’événement de déplacement n’a pas été trouvée en analysant l’impact possible de la source et du traducteur en filigrane dans les traductions dans une même langue mais dans des versions différentes. Dans cette pespective, cet article, en utilisant ce concept sémantique, tente d’analyser cet impact mentionné ci-dessus comme il est représenté chez David Hawkes, John Minford, et Xianyi Yang et Galdys Yang, à la lumière de leurs traductions respectives du Rêve dans le pavillon rouge.
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