During the past two to three decades, developments in the fields of transformational grammar, general and contrastive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, information theory, anthropology, semiotics, psychology and dis...During the past two to three decades, developments in the fields of transformational grammar, general and contrastive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, information theory, anthropology, semiotics, psychology and discourse analysis etc., have produced great influence on general translation theory, enabling the discipline to broaden the areas of investigation and to offer fresh insights into the concept of correspondence on transference between linguistic and cultural systems. Through this essay, the author would like to cast some lights on the relationship between translation and semiotics and tries to predict the developing trend of translation criteria from the angle of sociosemiotics.展开更多
文摘During the past two to three decades, developments in the fields of transformational grammar, general and contrastive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, information theory, anthropology, semiotics, psychology and discourse analysis etc., have produced great influence on general translation theory, enabling the discipline to broaden the areas of investigation and to offer fresh insights into the concept of correspondence on transference between linguistic and cultural systems. Through this essay, the author would like to cast some lights on the relationship between translation and semiotics and tries to predict the developing trend of translation criteria from the angle of sociosemiotics.
