Propositions on cross-cultural communication and translation
Propositions on cross-cultural communication and translation
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关于跨文化交际与翻译的主张
DOI：
10.1075/target.16.1.02pym
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发表时间：
2004
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1
通讯作者：
A. Pym
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A. Pym
跨文化交流的特点是，需要付出相对较高的努力来降低复杂性，交易成本相对较高，交流伙伴之间的信任度相对较低，成功的条件相对较窄，从而产生了高风险的话语点。因此，要在不同文化之间成功地交流，就需要一种特殊的风险管理。翻译作为一种跨文化交际的方式，也有着同样的特征，以及至少两个关于话语人和文本数量的具体表征准则。本文认为，复杂性、成功条件和风险等相关概念不仅可以描述作为跨文化交际方式的翻译行为，而且可以描述译者所处的职业跨文化的某些特征。因此，逐步的命题综合了一种方法，从跨文化交际的分析到专业跨文化的描述，他们的权力来源，以及他们在全球化时代明显缺乏权力的原因。
Cross-cultural communication can be characterized by a relatively high degree of effort required to reduce complexity, by relatively high transaction costs, by relatively low trust between communication partners, and by relatively narrow success conditions that create points of high-risk discourse. To communicate successfully between cultures would thus require a special kind of risk management. Translation, as a mode of cross-cultural communication, is held to share those same features, as well as at least two specific representational maxims concerning discursive persons and textual quantity. It is argued that the related concepts of complexity, success conditions and risk can describe not only the act of translating as a mode of cross-cultural communication, but also certain features of the professional intercultures to which translators belong. Step-by-step propositions thus synthesize an approach that runs from an analysis of cross-cultural communication to a description of professional intercultures, their sources of power, and the reasons for their apparent lack of power in a globalizing age.