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Analysis of Translation Strategies of Lin Yutang’s Translation of Six Chapters of a Floating Life from a Perspective of Cognitive Construal

Author(s)

HUANG Qian, GAO Wen-cheng

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.10.003

Affiliation(s)

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

ABSTRACT

Different translators adopt various translation strategies due to their distinct cognitive construal operations. Based on the theory of cognitive construal, this paper focuses on the translation process of Lin Yutang’s English version of Six Chapters of a Floating Life, exploring the translator’s cognitive construal operations in understanding the source text and producing the target text, as well as examining the cognitive motivations behind these operations. The translation of literary works is not the process of decoding and re-encoding between languages, but also the outcome of the translator’s cognitive construal. Lin Yutang’s translation possesses a high degree of specificity, respecting the relationship between figure and ground in the original text, highlighting the beauty of the literary works. This study helps reveal the multiple interactive relationships among the translator, the original text, and the readers.

KEYWORDS

cognitive construal, translation strategies, foreignization, domestication

Cite this paper

Journal of Literature and Art Studies, October 2025, Vol. 15, No. 10, 762-768

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