A Cognitive Study On Equivalence Extended In Scope Of Interpreting

Cognitive linguistics is a promising new perspective on many of the essential questions that linguists and people interested in language have been asking. It contains many theories and new ways of research work. (Wen Xu: 2002)The objective of the thesis is to explore coanitive motivations forthe strategy "equivalence extended in scope" (abbreviate as EES) in the process of interpreting and prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the strategy by illustrating ample examples in the light of interpretation studies and the science of cognition, especially cognitive linguistics.This paper consists of three chapters. The first chapter concentrates on EES strategy put forward by Liu Miqing, who offers a scientific and wallround view on the relations between the interpreting strategy and "explanation theories". Although Liu emphasized the importance of "meanings transference" in the process of interpretation, he developed his viewpoint mostly from the French "explanatory theories" to prove effectiveness of EES strategy.The second chapter pursues the experiential view of Cognitive Linguistics by focusing on psychological studies of cognitive...