生态翻译学“三维转换”视角下《檀香刑》 英译本的创造性叛逆研究

A Study on the Creative Treason in the English Translation of Sandalwood Death from the Perspective of Eco-Translatology’s “Three-Dimensional Transformation”

摘要: 本研究以生态翻译学“三维转换”为理论框架，聚焦葛浩文《檀香刑》英译本，分析译者如何在语言、文化与交际维度进行创造性叛逆。研究发现，译者的创造性叛逆是基于目标语生态的理性策略：语言维通过词汇简化与句法重构弥合汉英差异；文化维以个性化翻译完成方言与文化意象的转换；交际维则依托前两者的转换，重构了原文的语用等效与人物情感，三者协同实现译文在目标语生态中的有效存活。文学翻译中的“创造性叛逆”是译者在特定翻译生态环境中权衡文化传递、读者接受与交际效果后的必然选择，具有正当性与建设性，为文学翻译中创造性叛逆的合理性提供生态翻译学视角阐释，也为中国文学英译研究提供参考。

Abstract: Drawing on the “Three-Dimensional Transformation” framework of Eco-translatology, this study conducts a systematic analysis of Howard Goldblatt’s English translation of Mo Yan’s Sandalwood Death, focusing specifically on the mechanisms of creative treason enacted across the linguistic, cultural, and communicative dimensions. The findings indicate that such treason constitutes a set of rational adaptive strategies calibrated to the target-language ecosystem: the linguistic dimension mitigates structural disparities between Chinese and English through lexical simplification and syntactic reconstruction; the cultural dimension facilitates the transmutation of dialectal and imagistic elements via personalized translation strategies; and the communicative dimension, predicated upon the former two, reconstructs pragmatic equivalence and characterization. Operating synergistically, these dimensions ensure the text’s viability and survival within the target ecological context. The study posits that creative treason represents an inevitable outcome of the translator’s negotiation among cultural transmission, reader reception, and communicative efficacy within a specific translational eco-environment, thereby affirming its legitimacy and constructiveness. Ultimately, this research offers an Eco-translatological interpretation of the rationale behind creative treason and provides theoretical insights for the study of contemporary Chinese literature in global contexts.