Chapter 1 A Critical Survey of Quasi-Semiotic and Semiotic Approaches to Translation

1.1 The Status Quo of Translation Studies:Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary

1.2 Quasi-Semiotic Approaches

1.3 Semiotically-Inspired Approaches

1.4 More Semiotics-Oriented than Translation-Studies-Oriented

1.5 Quasi-Semiotic and Semiotic Approaches in China

Chapter 2 Literary Language as Verbal Signs with Self-Reflexivity

Chapter 3 Phonological Motivation

Chapter 4 Syntactic Motivation

4.1 Information-Focus

4.2 Theme-Rheme Structure

4.3 Syntactic Repetition

4.4 Series

4.5 Indeterminacy

Chapter 5 Semantic Motivation

5.1 Metaphoricity

5.2 Nonreferentiality

5.3 Intentionality

5.4 Intertextuality

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index