The issue of meaning is undoubtedly significant in translation theory. Based on Catford’s and Nida’s view on meaning in translation, this paper aims at explore linguistic school’s contribution to the theoretical description of meaning. With Nida’s semantic studies as a focus, it argues that Nida’s semantic studies represent an important stage and carry the linguistic school’s theoretical studie...

research interests are multimodality, social semiotics and critical discourse analysis. 139 visual communication 4(2) 138 visual communication 4(2) INTRODUCTION I began studying visual communication as a linguist concerned with the discourses, genres and styles of media texts, 20 years ago. It had become increasingly obvious to me that it was no longer adequate to study just the linguistic aspe...

According to Steven Pinker’s blurb on the dust jacket, ‘‘Ray Jackendoff is a monumental scholar in linguistics who, more than any other scholar alive today, has shown how language can serve as a window into human nature. Combining theoretical depth with a love of revealing detail, Ray Jackendoff illuminates human reason and consciousness in startling and insightful ways.’’ Jackendoff is the aut...

transcendental is such a significant term in kant's thoughts that he calls his philosophy transcendental idealism. however, this term isn't used with the same meaning in his philosophy. since the term is associated with the same meaning in the works about kant, it seems necessary to clarify its meaning in order to prevent any misunderstanding. the subject of this paper is to clarify t...

This article reviews cognitive neuroscience research on visual and language processing to suggest an analogy between the neural interpolation mechanisms in perceptual processing and the constructive processes that underlie meaning construction in language. Traditional models of language comprehension as a decoding process are argued to involve an overattribution of the import of linguistic info...