Association and Accommodation: A Study on the Translation Process

Author: Li Zhanxi
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This paper takes the translation of cultural imagery as a case study and examines the translation process from the pragmatic perspective of the "Relevance-Adaptation Research Approach." This research perspective is a theoretical framework tentatively constructed by the author of this paper based on Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory and Verschueren's Adaptation Theory. Its aim is to investigate the dynamic process of the translator's mental operations during the translation process. This paper describes how the translator's brain information processing mechanism facilitates cross-cultural communication between the source text author and the target text readers. The scope of this research involves the translator's cognitive abilities, and the goal is to reveal the potential possibilities of the translator's communicative competence. The main objective is to use the theoretical framework we have constructed to explain the translation process. Based on theoretical deduction and corpus analysis, this