On the Explanatory Pathways and Theoretical Models for Translation Universals

doi:10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2020.05.015

Abstract

Abstract: In the past two decades， empirical studies on Translation Universals (TU) have made considerable progresses， while still faced with problems and critiques in its conceptualization， theoretical models and explanatory pathways. The explanatory paths and theoretical models are essential to the development of TU hypotheses. There exist three explanatory routes for TUs: social cultural ones， like translation norms and risk-averse models， linguistic ones， combining other linguistic concepts like grammatical metaphor， register， or language typology etc， and translators' cognitive process including relevance theory model and gravity hypothesis. Based on a review of these explanations and models， it could be proposed that the cognitive process approach with an interdisciplinary nature will be a most promising theoretical model for TUs.

Key words: translation universals (TU), social cultural pathway, linguistic pathway, cognitive process pathway

CLC Number:

H059

LIU Yan-chun， HU Xian-yao. On the Explanatory Pathways and Theoretical Models for Translation Universals[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science), 2020, 22(5): 114-119.

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