Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies

Author: Wang Dongfeng
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book explores a relatively specific interdisciplinary topic: Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies. Translation research based on functional linguistics is no longer just static grammatical comparison, but has a broader cultural and sociosymbolic perspective. Studying translation from the perspective of functional linguistics can be said to start from a structuralist standpoint, but from the papers in this book, it can be seen that scholars' perspectives today are no longer consciously limited to a closed structure as they were for empiricists and structuralists before deconstruction. After witnessing the devastating impact of deconstruction, the imprint of deconstruction has remained in our memory, that is to say, we have become aware of the loopholes in traditional translation theory and have begun to explore how to develop patches for these loopholes. This collection of essays includes cultural studies of translation and ideological reflections: on the other hand, further research on the linguistic issues of translation is also necessary, as this is the fundamental theory of translation studies and cannot be neglected.