Cognitive Construe of Reconstructing"Meaning Beauty"in Xu Yuanchong's C-E Translating of Tang Poems
Applying cognitive construing mechanism to study Xu Yuanchong's C-E Translating Tang poems from four dimensions:scope,specificity,perspective and salience,it can be found that Xu Yuanchong reconstructing"Meaning Beauty"through following strategies:replenish lacked scope;shift category hierarchy;shift personal perspective;shift the theme and the rheme or add new information to the rheme of sentences.By applying these strategies,Xu Yuchong unfold a series of clear and distinct pictures before target readers'eyes to satisfy their reading expectations.Meanwhile,it shows that cognitive construing translator's strategies helps to reveal translator's complex cognitive route.
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