This paper examines the cognitive process in image translation of Er-shi-si Shi-pin from the perspective of genitive poetics. Er-shi-si Shi-pin is a unique and important work in the history of Chinese poetics, which discusses knowledge of poems in the form of image-loaded poems. Translating this work into English is of great help in promoting the cultural exchange between the East and the West. However, the work is difficult to translate as it uses many cultural-specific images. The images in Er-shi-si Shi-pin bare the poetic ideas of Si Kongtu, and are the basic pattern of poetic discourses in the late Tang. Translating them into English requires translators to have relevant cognition structure and translation experience, and the ability to apply different cognitive methods. Based on the framework of cognitive poetics, this paper adopts three approaches to analyze image translations of Er-shi-si Shi-pin, namely category recognition, literary schema and cross-space mapping. It is found that category recognition, functioning as the basis of other cognitive activities, is the starting point of understanding the images in the original work. And categorization is followed to connecting the images to existing knowledge of the translators, which leads to diverse comprehension of the original work. Then, the mappings among diverse cognitive domains enable the translator to choose appropriate expressions. These findings could contribute to the translating of other Chinese ancient works and to the studies of cultural translation in general.
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Image Translation, Er-Shi-Si Shi-pin, Cognitive Poetics
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abstract = {This paper examines the cognitive process in image translation of Er-shi-si Shi-pin from the perspective of genitive poetics. Er-shi-si Shi-pin is a unique and important work in the history of Chinese poetics, which discusses knowledge of poems in the form of image-loaded poems. Translating this work into English is of great help in promoting the cultural exchange between the East and the West. However, the work is difficult to translate as it uses many cultural-specific images. The images in Er-shi-si Shi-pin bare the poetic ideas of Si Kongtu, and are the basic pattern of poetic discourses in the late Tang. Translating them into English requires translators to have relevant cognition structure and translation experience, and the ability to apply different cognitive methods. Based on the framework of cognitive poetics, this paper adopts three approaches to analyze image translations of Er-shi-si Shi-pin, namely category recognition, literary schema and cross-space mapping. It is found that category recognition, functioning as the basis of other cognitive activities, is the starting point of understanding the images in the original work. And categorization is followed to connecting the images to existing knowledge of the translators, which leads to diverse comprehension of the original work. Then, the mappings among diverse cognitive domains enable the translator to choose appropriate expressions. These findings could contribute to the translating of other Chinese ancient works and to the studies of cultural translation in general.},
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