从关联理论的视角看《围城》英译本对隐喻的翻译

钱钟书的《围城》吸引了无数个中外读者的目光,其独具特色的"钱钟书式的比喻"既饱含了哲理又风趣幽默。隐喻是参照一个知识领域去理解另一个知识领域,翻译是一种跨语言的两轮交际活动,关联则是根据彼此相关的信息来认知事物。《围城》英译本对隐喻的翻译主要表现在写人、状物、喻世议理等方面。

The study of metaphor translation in Fortress Besieged from the perspective of relevance theory

Qian Zhongshu, employs many metaphor and linguistic manipulations to create humor and satire along the serious theme. Metaphor refers to the understanding of one knowledge area through another knowledge area. From the perspective of Relevance Theory, the process of translation consists of two rounds of communications, in which the translator plays a double role of both audience and communicator. Relevance Theory concerns about the nature and the process of human verbal communication. Metaphors in Fortress Besieged can be classified to three categories ; there are metaphors in caricaturing people, describing things and discussing truth.