Semiotical Explication of Translation and Its Minimal Encyclopedia

本文分析了口译-笔译的过程，同时分析了口译-笔译过程的产生机制。这一分析主要基于皮尔斯关于符号从一个符号系统翻译到另一个符号系统的意义假说，以及他的符号符号或符号现象无限制地在符号或表征者、对象和解释者三位一体中进行的思想。分析还基于以下假设：1.语言符号具有字面和隐喻的双重属性；2.象征是一个知识信息的获取、加工、传递、继承和储存的过程，在这个过程中，口译和翻译同时进行；3.这一表现从语内到语际层面展开。在分别讨论口译和翻译的第一章和第二章中，首先通过实例分析了具有字面和隐喻双重属性的口译-翻译表征系统的一致性过程。第三章结合实际使用的词典和百科全书系统，从理论上构建了一个个人头脑中从事释译的假想词典-百科全书系统，并描述了两者的相互关系。最后，应用集合的概念，将词典-百科全书系统和作为系统底层的知识-概念框架系统化，并将词典系统的最大元素和百科全书系统的最小元素表示为最小百科全书系统。这样，体现口译-笔译机制的最小百科全书就被符号学地解释了。

This paper analyzes the process of interpretation-translation and, at the same time, the mechanism of producing the process. This analysis is primarily based on C.S.Peirce's hypothesis of meaning deriving from the translation of a sign from one semiotic system into another and his idea of semiosis, or semiotic phenomona proceeding unlimitedly in the triadicity of sign or representamen, object and interpretant. The analysis also stands on the following assumptions : 1.as a linguistic sign has the double property of literal and metaphorical ; 2.semiosis is a process of acquisition, processing, transference, inheritance and storage of knowledge-information, in which interpretation and translation are performed at the same time ; and 3.this performance proceeds from intralinguistic to interlinguistic levels.In chapter 1 and 2, which discuss interpretation and translation respectively, the consistent process of interpreting-translating representation systems with the double property of literal and metaphorical is first analyzed with examples. In chapter 3, in the light of dictionary and encyclopedia systems actually in use, a hypothetical dictionary-encyclopedia system in the individual mind engaged in interpretation-translation is theoretically constructed, and then the interrelation of both systems is described. Last, by applying the concept of set, the dictionary-encyclopedia system and a knowledge-concept framework supposedly underlying the system are schematized, and the maximal element of the dictionary system and the minimal one of the encyclopedia system enabling the sift between both systems are presented as a minimal encyclopedia system. Thus, the minimnal encyclopedia embodying the mechanism of interpretation-translation is semiotically explicated.