Versio latina: Agents, Functions and Aims of the Translation of Early Modern Literature into Latin.

Versio latina项目调查了在早期现代印刷市场上成功的本地文学翻译成拉丁语的情况。作为对早期现代文学研究的补充，它侧重于拉丁语，而不是作为源语言，而是作为目标语言，以新拉丁语翻译为中心。本文旨在（1）揭示拉丁语版本的文化功能和经济目的;（2）描述和理论反思近代早期拉丁语翻译的特殊情况，从而提高人们对（3）白话文学的“被遗忘的拉丁性”，这对早期现代文学的国际化以及这本书都具有重要意义。PP 2130“早期现代翻译文化”的框架提案强调，拉丁语不仅用于学术交流，而且作为“跨文化连接点”（“interkulturelle Gelenkstelle”;第11页）也发挥了至关重要的作用。该项目采用了这种方法，并通过理解“翻译”（versio）作为一个必须在口头上和文化上定义的类别，将拉丁语版本与所有三个概述的研究领域联系起来。在文化上，新拉丁语版本的特点是没有目标语言的母语使用者-尽管全球性和相对较大的语言社区-，也没有共同的地理位置。对于这个星座，术语“目标文化”必须重新定义;该项目通过调查拉丁版本的代理人，功能和目标来实现这一点。因此，它面对以前的研究的刺激与这些拉丁美洲的“好奇心”，应用目的论的方法。任何新拉丁语版本都有一种特殊的动词多指性，这种联系错综复杂：如果一个德国翻译家把一本西班牙语小说翻译成拉丁语，而且这本书是由一个国际上活跃的出版商出版的，那么关于翻译的决定不仅要受到古拉丁语的“语义包袱”的影响，而且还要受到新拉丁语的影响，新拉丁语是翻译家的母语，文本的源语言，以及潜在买家的母语。围绕着这些译本、副文本以及与其出版相关的第二手资料，我们将对相关的话语进行研究。以相关的国际文本语料库为例，整个项目旨在从方法论上重新构建和反思源语言和目标语言之间的相互关系，以及围绕着早期现代拉丁语译本的文化网络和经济。研究结果将揭示拉丁语版本是拉丁语翻译的一种补充现象，是全球文化交流的中介现象。它们对历史上的全球语言拉丁语以及对现代国际语言的研究都有价值。

The project Versio latina investigates translations of vernacular literature into Latin that were successful on the early modern print market. Complementary to previous research on early modern literature, it focusses on Latin not as source but as target language, centring on the Neo-Latin translation. It aims at (1) discovering the cultural functions and economical objectives of the versio latina, at (2) describing and theoretically reflecting on the special translation situation applying when translating into Latin in the early modern age, and thus to raise awareness of (3) the ‘forgotten Latinity’ of vernacular literature which was of major importance to the internationalisation of early modern literature as well as the book trade.The framework proposal of the PP 2130 “Early Modern Translation Cultures” emphasises that Latin was not only used for scholarly communication but played also a vital role as “interkulturelle Gelenkstelle” (‘intercultural junction’; p. 11). The project adopts this approach and connects the versio latina to all three outlined research areas by understanding ‘translation’ (versio) as a category that must be defined verbally as well as culturally.Culturally, the Neo-Latin versio is characterised by the fact that there are no native speakers of the target language – though global and with a comparatively large language community –, nor does it have a shared geographical place. For this constellation, the term ‘target culture’ must be redefined; the project achieves this by investigating the agents, functions and aims of the versio Latina. Consequently, it confronts previous research’s irritation with these Latin “curiosities” by applying a skopos theory approach. Intricately connected is the particular verbal multi-referentiality of any Neo-Latin versio: if a German translator translates a Spanish novel into Latin and the work is published by an internationally active publisher, the decisions concerning the translation are not only informed by the ‘semantic rucksack’ attached to ancient Latin, but also by the possibilities offered by Neo-Latin, the mother tongue of the translator, the source language of the text and potentially the mother tongue(s) of the intended buyers. The surrounding discourse is to be researched on the basis of the translations, their paratexts and secondary sources connected with their publication.On the example of a relevant international text corpus, the whole project aims at reconstructing and methodologically reflecting on the interrelationship between source and target languages, cultural networks and economies around early modern Latin translations. The results obtained will reveal the versio latina to be a complementary phenomenon to the translation from Latin and as intermediary phenomenon of global cultural exchange. They will be valuable for the historical global language Latin as well as for the research into modern international languages.