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The Transformation of Thought Patterns in English-Chinese Translation
Shi-hua DING
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2017.04.006
TKK College Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Translation involves not only formal transformation of two languages concerned, but also conversion of thought patterns. The oriental thought pattern is considered “concrete”, “man-centered”, and “ordinal”; while the western one is believed to be “abstract”, “object-centered”, and “conversed”. These are the decisive factors for the existence of the differences in language expressing. It is of great importance to study these differences and make some adjustments in terms of syntactic structure, semantic focus, and time order so as to achieve a natural rending.
transformation of thought patterns, Chinese-English translation, syntactic structure, semantic focus, time order
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