关键词: 致使移动, 语法整合, 翻译, 认知

Abstract: Larson (1984: 3) holds the view that translation is fundamentally a process of change of form: i.e., the translation process consists of changing a text (form) in one language into a text (form) in another language. From the perspective of conceptual and linguistic blending operations, however, various forms employed in different languages are the products of dynamic blending operations and translation is the process of interpreting and reconstructing the dynamic blending operations. This paper, from the perspective of grammatical blending, regards translation as the result of the interaction between language and cognition. Based on the analysis of the cognitive operations underlying the linguistic forms involved in the process of translating the English caused-motion construction into Chinese, this study proposes a unified translation framework for the cognitive operations in translating grammatical constructions. The similarities and differences of conceptual and linguistic blending operations in the process of generating English caused-motion sentences and Chinese are also revealed.