Memetics is the study about cultural evolution,meme is the basic unit of culture,with language as its main medium,when meme was transmitted across language and culture obstacles,the adaptation theory from pragmatics p...Memetics is the study about cultural evolution,meme is the basic unit of culture,with language as its main medium,when meme was transmitted across language and culture obstacles,the adaptation theory from pragmatics provides the mechanism and selection criteria for the successfully transmitted meme via the means of translation,thus a memetic-adaptation paradigm for translation studies will be proposed based on memetics and adaptation theory.展开更多
文摘Memetics is the study about cultural evolution,meme is the basic unit of culture,with language as its main medium,when meme was transmitted across language and culture obstacles,the adaptation theory from pragmatics provides the mechanism and selection criteria for the successfully transmitted meme via the means of translation,thus a memetic-adaptation paradigm for translation studies will be proposed based on memetics and adaptation theory.
