The Heterogeneity of Form and Meaning in Chinese Political Chunk-Constructions and Their English Translation Disambiguation
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https://doi.org/10.63313/EDU.8032Keywords:
Chunk-construction in Chinese political discourse, Spatiality, Temporality, Intra-chunk sense relation, Inter-chunk sense relationAbstract
The contemporary trend of “Translating China” underscores the importance of source-language disambiguation and effective dissemination. This paper examines the chunk-construction of “4±1” patterns and their joint sequential arrangements in political dis-course, along with their manifestations of form-meaning non-homogeneity. It further explores translators’ cognitive disambiguation and processing mechanisms. The findings reveal that both the “4±1” chunk-constructions and their combined sequences exhibit characteristics of chunk discreteness under a strong spatial orientation. Internal compositional sequences may demon-strate significant form-meaning non-homogeneity due to semantic variations. The typological differences between English (temporality preference) and Chinese (spatiality preference) com-pel translated texts to engage in deep-level disambiguation and restructuring of the implicit mi-cro- and macro-semantic logic within and between chunks. This process also constrains the translated text, leading to explicit connective and continuous representations characteristic of a strong temporal orientation.
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