基于语料库的《狮子、女巫和魔衣橱》三个汉译本译者风格对比研究

A Corpus‑Based Comparative Study of Three Chinese Translators’ Styles in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

摘要: 《狮子、女巫和魔衣橱》是C.S.刘易斯的经典儿童文学作品。本研究基于自建的英汉平行语料库，借助LancsBox工具，从词汇、句子和语篇三个层面，对邓嘉宛、陈良廷与刘文澜、林芬三个汉译本进行译者风格的量化对比分析。基于描写翻译研究发现：邓嘉宛译本用词最为丰富，在初始规范上偏向可接受性，操作规范上追求词汇多样性与适度显化；陈良廷与刘文澜合译本在逻辑连词“因为”使用上频率最高，体现了衔接显化；林芬译本在感叹号与“把”字句的使用上最为突出，情感显化策略与句式操控意识明显。上述风格差异与译者个人不同的译者惯习及其对翻译规范的系统性选择等因素密切相关。本研究为儿童文学翻译的译者风格研究提供一定的数据参考，以期为语料库翻译学在儿童文学英汉翻译领域的应用积累些许实证支持。

Abstract: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a classic children’s fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis. Based on a self-constructed English-Chinese parallel corpus and using the LancsBox tool, this study conducts a quantitative comparative analysis of three Chinese translations—respectively by Deng Jiawan, by Chen Liangting and Liu Wenlan, and by Lin Fen—at the lexical, syntactic and discourse levels. Framed within Descriptive Translation Studies, the findings reveal that Deng Jiawan’s version exhibits the highest lexical richness, tending towards acceptability under the initial norm and pursuing lexical diversity with moderate explicitation under operational norms. The co-translated version by Chen Liangting and Liu Wenlan shows the highest frequency of logical connectives “because”, indicating cohesive explicitation norms. Lin Fen’s version is most prominent in its use of exclamation marks and the ba (把) construction, displaying a clear awareness of emotional explicitation and syntactic manipulation. These stylistic differences are closely related to the translators’ distinct habitus and their systematic choices regarding translation norms. This study hopes to offer some data reference for research on translator style in children’s literature translation, and in doing so, to accumulate a modest amount of empirical support for the application of corpus-based translation studies in the field of English-to-Chinese translation of children’s literature.