基于语料库的中国立法文本英译古体词研究

发布时间：2018-03-22 22:06

本文选题：法律翻译　切入点：语料库　出处：《广东外语外贸大学》2017年硕士论文　论文类型：学位论文

【摘要】：以here-,there-,where-及介词后缀构成的古体词是法律英语中的常见表达,但在“简明英语运动”的影响下,该类词汇逐渐不受关注,在法律文本中仅保留最常见的用法。虽然国内很多法律翻译研究涉及法律术语或词汇的翻译,但鲜有研究专门针对here-,there-,where-及介词后缀构成的古体词展开,更未有从语料库方法、通过信息桥理论视角进行探讨。基于此,本文选取美国官方法律原文和中国人大网的官方英译各130多万词作为语料,以探究古体词在权威立法法律文本中的使用情况。本文首先从中美立法机构官网搜集官方法律原文和英译,建立两个可比语料库,再通过语料库分析软件检索出两个语料库古体词的使用词频,分析词汇搭配,对古体词进行具体的分类;其次,本文分析了法律英语中最常见古体词“thereof”和“hereby”在两个语料库中的不同用法,归纳出两个语料库对特定古体词使用的共性和差异;最后,通过信息桥理论视角阐释所发现语言现象在社会文化体系、语言规约方面的成因。通过上述研究,作者发现:(1)古体词在中美权威的立法文本当中的使用频率较低,约为千分之一,仅保留了最常见的法律古体词,可以把这些古体词分为四大类;英译古体词使用相对较少。(2)美国法典灵活使用“hereby”,简化使用“thereof”,而中国法律英译则简化使用“hereby”,而灵活使用“thereof”。(3)本文通过信息模型视角,从社会文化体系和语言规约两个角度阐释了上述现象产生的原因。
[Abstract]:The ancient words composed of here-there-where- and preposition suffixes are common expressions in legal English, but under the influence of the "concise English movement", these words have gradually gone unnoticed. Although many legal translation studies in China involve the translation of legal terms or words, few studies have been devoted to the development of archaic words composed of here-there-where- and prepositional suffixes, not to mention the corpus-based approach. From the perspective of information bridge theory, this paper selects more than 1.3 million words each of the original official laws of the United States and the official English translation of the Chinese National people's Congress as the corpus. In order to explore the usage of classical Chinese words in authoritative legislative texts, this paper first collects official legal texts and English translations from the official websites of Chinese and American legislatures, and sets up two comparable corpora. Then through the corpus analysis software to retrieve the use frequency of the two corpus words, analyze the collocation of words, carry on the concrete classification to the ancient type words; secondly, This paper analyzes the different usage of the most common ancient style words "thereof" and "hereby" in the two corpora in legal English, and concludes the commonness and difference between the two corpora in the use of specific ancient style words. From the perspective of information bridge theory, the author explains the causes of the language phenomenon in the sociocultural system and language regulation. Through the above research, the author finds that the use of the ancient style words in the authoritative legislative texts of China and the United States is relatively low. About 1/1000, only retained the most common ancient legal style words, can be divided into four categories of these ancient style words; "hereby" and "thereof" are used flexibly in the United States Code, while the English translation of Chinese laws simplifies the use of "hereby" and the flexible use of "thereof". The causes of the above phenomenon are explained from the two angles of sociocultural system and language regulation.
【学位授予单位】：广东外语外贸大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2017
【分类号】：H315.9

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