语言是一种复杂系统,翻译是跨越两种语言系统的复杂活动。测量数据显示,内容相同、(语言)形式不同的网络具有相似的复杂网络特征。这在一定程度上证明了不同语言之间存在着可译性及翻译文本整体特征具有可度量性。研究也表明,尽管这几种语言的网络都具有小世界与无尺度的特征,但通过这些复杂网络特征参数值之间的差异也有助于发现不同语言结构间的差异。复杂网络不仅是一种可用来研究网络共性的方法,也可用来发现语言网络的个性。
Language is a complex system,and translation is an interlingual complicated activity.Based on 20 Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen,the paper built language networks of Danish,Chinese,English and Esperanto and measured their network properties.The results show that these language networks with the identical contents and(language) different forms have similar properties of complex network.The study shows that the global property of translation is measurable,and the differences among the four language networks also present their differences in linguistic structures.So complex network can not only be used as a means to find universality,but also as a tool to search some properties of language networks.