Based on the cognitive view of metonymy and taking some ＂head＂ expressions in English and Chinese as corpora, this paper makes a qualitative analysis and tries to find out the causes for the similarities and discrep...Based on the cognitive view of metonymy and taking some ＂head＂ expressions in English and Chinese as corpora, this paper makes a qualitative analysis and tries to find out the causes for the similarities and discrepancies between these ＂head＂ metonymies.展开更多
This article discusses the result of cognitive deviation originating from the lexical and syntactic difference between English and Chinese. By analyzing three different aspects involved in this paper, namely, syntheti...This article discusses the result of cognitive deviation originating from the lexical and syntactic difference between English and Chinese. By analyzing three different aspects involved in this paper, namely, synthetic versus analytic, compact versus diffusive and hypotactic versus paratactic deviations, a conclusion can be drawn that consciousness of necessary information qualifies a translator for work only when he is familiar with this kind of cognitive deviation.展开更多
文摘Based on the cognitive view of metonymy and taking some ＂head＂ expressions in English and Chinese as corpora, this paper makes a qualitative analysis and tries to find out the causes for the similarities and discrepancies between these ＂head＂ metonymies.
基金This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation （No. 08BYY046）.
文摘This article discusses the result of cognitive deviation originating from the lexical and syntactic difference between English and Chinese. By analyzing three different aspects involved in this paper, namely, synthetic versus analytic, compact versus diffusive and hypotactic versus paratactic deviations, a conclusion can be drawn that consciousness of necessary information qualifies a translator for work only when he is familiar with this kind of cognitive deviation.
