杨枫(2021)提出的知识翻译学关注翻译本原,聚焦知识,提出一个译出的语义单位有两部分:第一部分是原意或本原,即各种类型的知识;第二部分则是由意识形态操控而产生的文化成分。为避免误解,翻译应重在知识的翻译。为此,该学说提出真、善、美的翻译标准,倡导译出真义以传达知识本原;提出善译,顾及社会心理与使用者方便,助力读者看到本原;提倡以译入语审美为基准的美的表述,同样是为引入本原。鉴于知识翻译学以知识本原为核心,涉及翻译本质问题,故将知识翻译学译为元翻译学(metatranslatology)。

Zhishi fanyixue, proposed by Professor YANG Feng, is all about the nature of translation by focusing on knowledge. According to this theory, a translated meaning unit actually consists of two parts: one is knowledge contained in the source text, the other is the added cultural messages manipulated by the translator for ideological reasons. It’s knowledge that should be translated so as not to be misleading. The translation practice described by Zhishi fanyixue is guided by the principle of real meanings, full preparations and appropriate expressions based on target-text aesthetic conceptions. By the principle of real meanings is meant that translation should translate the knowledge in the source text; by the principle of full preparations is meant that translation should take the sociolinguistic factors and reader friendliness into consideration in order to assist the readers to view the knowledge in the source text; by the principle of TT aesthetic conceptions is meant that translation should introduce the knowledge in the source text by following the aesthetic principles of target language. Since Zhishi fanyixue centers on knowledge and deals with some crucial issues of translation, it is therefore translated into metatranslatology.