The Translator’s Cognitive Construction in the Perspective of Cognitive Narratology

Current research on combining cognitive narratology and translation studies focuses on defining the role of translation within cognitive narratology, challenging the assumption that original and target texts are undifferentiated in narratological studies. However, this research rarely refers to the translator’s cognitive mechanism in the narrative process. Drawing on the Psycho-spatial theory, the space network of the whole translation activity includes the author’s cognitive space of original narrative text, the translator’s cognitive spaces of narrative construction and re-narrative reconstruction, and the reader’s cognitive space of re-narrative acceptance, meaning that the translator should participate in the cognitive process of narrative construction and re-narrative reconstruction by moving in these different spaces. In addition, this research looks into the translator’s specific identity information and cognitive operations to detect its cognitive basis and explain the cognitive activity.