Culture-Oriented Functional Approaches to Chinese-English Translating

从三本著作看西方翻译研究的新发展 [中文摘要] 在西方翻译研究领域，近年来可以说有两大派别占据了主导地位：一派以广义上的语言学为基础，致力于建构和发展经验性质的翻译科学；另一派则从历史的角度通过描写的方式来研究翻译问题。两者尽管大相径庭，但有一个突出的共同点，即具有较强的经验性，与纯理论研究形成了对照。本文旨在通过对三本代表性著作的考察，来管中窥豹，看当今西方两个主要译学研究派别的某些特点，同时可以对西方的纯理论研究略有了解。 关键词：翻译研究、新发展、代表作 Recent Developments in Translation Studies as Seen from Three Representative Abstract: In the field of translation studies, despite the existence of multiple approaches, two trends of development seem to have been dominating in recent years: one based on linguistics in the wide sense; the other marked by a historical-descriptive orientation. While the two trends of development are contrastive with each other, they share one thing in common, namely, both being essentially empirical, forming a contrast to translation studies with a somewhat ‘purely’ theoretical orientation. The present paper offers a discussion of some recent developments in the field by way of reviewing three representative books published in the 1990’s. Through the present review, we may get a glimpse not only of the characteristics of the two major trends of development, but also of certain features of the theoretical versus the empirical orientation. Key words: translation studies, developments, representative books