;idioms, culture-loaded words, and abbreviations. The author makes use of the network models of the CIT to analyze the translation process of them aiming to find out which network model should be used to analyze a certain kind of language phenomenon. Under the guidance of the network model, an appropriate translation strategy should be adopted in order to achieve the conversion of the surface layer between the languages while keep the mental packets unchanged. As for the syntactic and textual level, the author makes use of the network models of the CIT to analyze the translation process that how to deal with the differences in sentence patterns and textual organization structures between English and Chinese.
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Chapter Two Literature Review
This chapter gives a general review of the development and the application of the CIT both at home and abroad. In addition, the previous studies on the GWR translation will also be reviewed.
2.1 Foreign Studies on Conceptual Integration Theory (CIT)
The CIT is also called the Blending Theory, which is put forward by Fauconnier. The studies of the CIT originate from abroad. And the foreign studies on the CIT lay a solid foundation to the domestic studies. This part introduces the development of the CIT and its applications to translation. The book Metaphors We Live By lauded as the marking beginning of cognitive linguistics, and it gives rise to the linguistic revolution both in cognition and methodology. The appearance of cognitive linguistics laid a solid foundation to the CIT. Five years after the publication of the book, Fauconnier (1985) proposed “mental space” starting to explore the cognition behind language. Then he published many books to enrich the theory, such as Blending as Central Process of Grammars (1996), Mapping in Thought and Language (1997), Principles of Conceptual Integration (1996), Conceptual Integration Networks (1998), Metaphor, Metonymy, and Blending (2000), and he also coauthored a book called The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and The Mind’s Hidden Complexities( 2002) with Mark Turner. He and his colleagues found and developed the CIT ( Wang Zhengyuan，2006).
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2.2 Domestic Studies on CIT
Zhu Min and Xi Jianguo (2011) have reviewed the domestic studies about the CIT from 2000 to 2010. According to their study, it was only at the beginning of this century that domestic scholars began to research on the CIT. The studies of the CIT can be divided into two parts: one is the study of the theory itself; the other is the application of the CIT.Domestic studies on the CIT are based on the relevant studies abroad. Most of them are the introduction to the theory abroad or just give a general review of its development. There are &n
