生态翻译学视角下《红楼梦》“宝玉挨打”一回阿拉伯语译本的适应与选择——兼论英译本的中介问题
Auteurs : Soliman Rahma .
Résumé
Taking the theory of translation as adaptation and selection in eco-translatology as its basis, this paper examines Farahat’s Arabic translation (2016) of Chapter 33 of Dream of the Red Chamber, “The Beating of Bao-yu”. This paper organizes the examples by problem type (names and forms of address, units of measurement, religious and cultural terms, and emotional expression), examines the interplay of the linguistic, cultural and communicative dimensions within each, and evaluates the choices by the degree of integrated adaptation and selection. The study finds that the rendering of “金钏儿”as a transliteration of an English name and the treatment of “忠顺王府”, which matches Hawkes’s version, suggest, together with the translator’s English-language training and translation record, that the translation may have been mediated by English, although this still needs systematic comparison to confirm. In some examples, naming logic that worked in the English environment loses its adaptive value once transferred into Arabic; the unit li (里) is neither converted nor explained, the underworld (阴司) is rendered generically as “the other world”, whereas the emotional force of “面如金纸” is handled flexibly by adding an explicit emotion word. The paper argues that translators of classical Chinese literature into Arabic should re-evaluate the adaptive logic of any intermediary version and apply a consistent standard to culturally loaded terms.
Mots clés
eco-translatology ; Dream of the Red Chamber ; Arabic translation ; mediated translation; integrated adaptation and selection
