“前景化”理论与文学翻译

"前景化"这一概念源于俄国的形式主义,它指的是不同寻常地运用某种手段来突出某一文本的一个元素或特质。前景化现象在文学语言中表现得最为充分,因此文学文本翻译成功与否,在很大程度上取决于充溢于原文本的"前景化"手段在目的语中是否实现。文章讨论了前景化的发展历史、表现形式及其译者在充满前景或陌生化的文学文本中应如何穷尽语言的表达力,挖掘可译性潜势,保持原文本的异质性和新奇感。

Foregrounding and Its Application in Literary Translation

For Russian Formalists,foregrounding means giving unusual prominence to one element or property of a text,relative to other less noticeable aspects.Foregrounding,in different forms,abounds in literary texts,therefore the success of a translated literary text depends largely on the preservation and transference of foregrounded parts from the source text to the target text.This paper attempts to trace the historical development of the concept "foregrounding" and the forms of manifestation of foregrounding in literary and examines how the translator should exhaust the potentiality of the expressive function of the target language so as to preserve the homogeneity and novelty of the source text.