Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2022, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (5): 31-39.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2022.05.004

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An Interpretation of the Relationship between Transknowletology and Cognitive Translatology

PAN Yanyan()   

  • Online:2022-10-28 Published:2022-11-11

Abstract:

Translation is a cultural behavior and social practice based on the translator’s cognitive activities of cross language knowledge processing, reconstruction and redissemination. From the perspective of human cognitive mechanism, this paper attempts to clarify the necessity and rationality of Knowledge Translatology, and promote the breakthrough of this new concept in theory and method. This paper discusses the similarities and complementarities between Knowledge Translatology and Cognitive Translatology and points out that Cognitive Translatology can be regarded as one part of the studies of Knowledge Translatology, and suggests future research topics from the perspective of cognitive science,i.e.: the use of metaphor, metonymy and mental space in conceptualizing knowledge; brain thinking activities and language psychological processing in the complex translation space; realization of the constructive functions of cognition, evaluation, changing and interpretation of knowledge generated and transmitted through translation, etc.

Key words: Knowledge Translatology, Cognitive Translatology, cognitive science, Cognitive Linguistics

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