关联理论视角下美食纪录片中文化负载词的英译研究——以《走遍中国·食在八方》川菜篇为例

A Study on the English Translation of Culture-Loaded Words in Food Documentaries from the Perspective of Relevance Theory—A Case Study of Go around the China: Sichuan Cuisine

摘要: 本文以关联理论为理论框架，结合奈达的文化负载词分类法，对美食纪录片《走遍中国·食在八方》川菜篇的英文字幕语料进行了案例研究。文章首先将片中的文化负载词划分为生态、物质、社会和语言四个类别，然后具体分析了各类词汇所蕴含的文化内涵、语言特征及其翻译难点。研究旨在探讨如何运用直译、意译、加注、归化与异化等翻译策略，在“最佳关联”原则的指导下，使目标语观众能以最小的认知努力获得最大的语境效果。研究的最终目标是平衡文化信息的传递与目标受众的理解，从而提升川菜文化的跨文化传播效能，并为同类纪录片的字幕翻译提供参考。

Abstract: This study adopts Relevance Theory as its theoretical framework and conducts a case study of the English subtitle corpus of the food documentary Go around the China: Sichuan Cuisine, drawing on Nida’s classification of culture-loaded words. First, the culture-loaded words in the documentary are classified into four categories: ecological, material, social, and linguistic culture-loaded words. The study then examines the cultural connotations, linguistic features, and translation difficulties associated with each category. Guided by the principle of “optimal relevance”, the study explores how translation strategies, including literal translation, free translation, annotation, domestication, and foreignization, can be employed to enable target audiences to obtain maximum contextual effects with minimal cognitive effort. Ultimately, the study aims to strike a balance between the transmission of cultural information and the comprehension of the target audience, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of cross-cultural communication of Sichuan cuisine culture and providing a reference for the subtitle translation of similar food documentaries.