汉英翻译中母语迁移实证研究——基于有声思维分析-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

i i Acknowledgements I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to all the teachers of the School of Foreign Studies in Hunan University of Science and Technology for their wonderful lectures, sincere help, kind encouragements and constructive advice. Reading and writing under their guidance have contributed a lot to my progress in academic research. The opportunities to experience their dynamic classes and to communicate ideas with them will positively and considerably influence me in the future. I am particularly grateful to my supervisor, Associate Prof. Zhang Jinghua, whose support and suggestions have been very invaluable in the writing and improvement of this dissertation. He has also helped me a lot in the improvement of my English writing proficiency and academic research ability. I would also like to thank all my classmates and friends who helped and encouraged me to undertake this study. My gratitude also extends to all the students participated in my study. They are the souls of this study. Last, my deepest thanks go to my family, for whose caring love and encouragement support me in pursuing my dreams. It is my pleasure to dedicate this thesis to them. ii ii Abstract First language transfer is a significant linguistic and psychological phenomenon in translation, which involves two kinds of transfer: positive transfer and negative transfer. Positive transfer refers to the facilitation/improvement of the target language acquisition, because of the similarities between L1 and L2. Negative means the hindrance/interference of the L1 to SLA, when differences exist in L1 and L2. For Chinese English learners, negative transfer of L1 is usually described as errors or Chinglish. When reviewing the previous research, most of the studies were constrained in comparison studies, like Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis, in which the psychological processing of L1 transfer are left untouched. The present thesis adopts the approach of TAPs to investigate the inner proces