| Translation encompasses both the translating process and the translated product. It is identified that the translation process is a dialogic process, where dialogues among the translator, the source text, the author, the target reader and the patronage occur. Without the occurrence of those dialogues, a satisfactory translated product would never come into being. As for the translated product, it shoulders the responsibility of contriving the dialogue between the source text and the target reader. This dialogue is considered as the ultimate goal of translation. This ultimate dialogue is closely glued to the dialogue between the target reader and the target language text. Thus, the translated product is believed to fulfill a two-tier dialogue mission. The dialogue between the target reader and the target language text is deemed as the surface dialogue while the dialogue between the target reader and the source text is regarded as the beneath dialogue. And the translated product largely determines whether the surface dialogue can finally manage to realize the beneath dialogue. All those dialogues between translation participants make the product and the process a unity. Translation is a complex of dialogues.In order to help further explain dialogues, the theory of inter-subjectivity is utilized as it advocates the dialogic relationship between the participants of dialogues and the dialogic role the translator plays in translation. By means of complexity and application, two dialogue models of A-B Dialogue and Compound Dialogue are established. As for A-B Dialogue, it symbolizes basic dialogues in translation with two participants involved in. This model is to cover all the possible two-voice dialogues related to both the translating process and the translated product. Thus, A-B dialogues go from the translating process to the translated product. Unlike A-B Dialogue, Compound Dialogue reflects the integration of those main pairs of A-B dialogues between the translator, the source text, the author, the target reader and the patronage in the process of translation.Compared to A-B Dialogue, Compound Dialogue is the better choice to analyze the working system of translator’s subjectivity because Compound Dialogue focuses on the integration of A-B dialogues in the translating process. Dialogues in Compound Dialogue can happen in two phases:the A-B Dialogue phase and the mediation phase. Translator’s Subjectivity as an integration of passivity and initiative works through the two phases. During the first phase, the translator has A-B dialogues with his dialogue partners, namely the source text, the author, the target reader and the patronage. During the second phase, the translator is supposed to mediate those voices he has collected in the first phase so that those voices can be put in a harmonious state. Through the discussion of the two phases, how translator’s subjectivity works is presented. |
