Understanding the mediation of dialectal value

IF 0.5 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Jing Jiang, Kefei Wang
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Abstract

Dialect, when viewed in contrast with standard language, creates a variety of geographical or social implications. This variety may be hybridized with other social voices to convey the theme of the text. Previous studies have elaborated much on the representation of the socio-cultural connotations in dialectal speech. However, the value of dialect may not be confined only to its socio-cultural connotations. Drawing on insights from sociolinguistics and systemic functional linguistics, this study aims to uncover the representation of the English dialect of Pygmalion in its Chinese translations and the possible reasons why it is represented as such in the Chinese context. By quantifying the shifts in Eliza Doolittle’s dialect voice, the analysis shows that a local variety or varieties of colloquial register were adopted to recreate the dialectal variety in Chinese translations of Pygmalion. The local variety provides a better interpretation of the functions and stylistic significance of the source dialect. The recreation of the source dialect in the translated texts of Pygmalion results from the mediation of the translator’s positioning and what has been established by the receptor system’s literary conventions, social hierarchy, language ideologies, and the roles of literary translation.
理解方言价值的中介作用
与标准语言相比,方言产生了各种各样的地理或社会含义。这种多样性可能与其他社会声音混合在一起,以传达文本的主题。以往的研究对方言话语中社会文化内涵的表征做了大量阐述。然而,方言的价值可能不仅仅局限于它的社会文化内涵。利用社会语言学和系统功能语言学的见解,本研究旨在揭示皮格马利翁英语方言在其中文翻译中的表现及其在中文语境中如此表现的可能原因。通过定量分析杜立特方言语音的变化,分析表明,在《皮格马利翁》的汉译中,采用了一种或多种方言语域来再现方言的多样性。地方方言变体更好地诠释了源方言的功能和文体意义。《皮格马利翁》译文中源语方言的再创造是译者定位和受体系统的文学习俗、社会等级、语言意识形态以及文学翻译角色等因素共同作用的结果。
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