基于语料库的《考工记》英译本译者风格研究

A Corpus-Based Study on the Translators’ Style of Kaogong Ji

摘要: 本文以《考工记》闻人军译本与关增建、赫尔曼合译本为研究对象，基于语料库方法构建双语平行语料库，运用WordSmith和AntConc等工具，从词汇、句法、语篇三个层面对译者风格进行对比分析。研究发现，两译本在词汇多样性、术语处理、句式长度及语篇可读性等方面存在差异。进一步分析表明，这些差异在一定程度上体现为译者在术语准确性与语篇可读性之间的不同权衡：闻人译本偏向学术导向的知识呈现方式，而关译本更趋向读者导向的表达策略。上述发现说明，译者风格不仅源于语言偏好与知识背景，也与译本的传播目标与出版定位密切相关。研究展示了语料库方法在典籍翻译风格分析中的应用潜力，为理解译者选择背后的机制提供了实证参考。

Abstract: This paper investigates two full English versions of Kaogong Ji—Wenren Jun’s and the co-translation by Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann—using a corpus-based approach. A bilingual parallel corpus was built, and tools such as WordSmith and AntConc were used to compare translator styles at the lexical, syntactic, and discourse levels. The study reveals notable differences in vocabulary diversity, terminology treatment, sentence complexity, and readability. Further analysis suggests that these differences partly reflect different degrees of balance between terminological accuracy and textual readability: Wenren’s version tends to adopt a more academically oriented mode of knowledge presentation, whereas Guan and Herrmann’s version shows a more reader-oriented strategy. These findings indicate that translator style is shaped not only by linguistic preferences and knowledge backgrounds, but also by the communicative purposes and publishing orientation of the translations. The findings offer empirical insights into the mechanisms underlying stylistic variation in classical text translation.