Academic Paper The Many Ways To Search For A Frog: Linguistic Typology And The Expression Of Motion Events English-Chinese Translation Practice Repor

With the development of cognitive linguistics,motion events,as an important issue,have been studied by a growing number of scholars at home and abroad.Most of the researches on motion events are conducted abroad,and in China,the related researches are relatively limited.So it is necessary to introduce foreign researches on motion events to China,so as to promote domestic research.The source text of this translation report is a linguistics thesis written by Dan Slobin,an honorary professor of linguistics in University of California,Berkeley.The title of the thesis is The Many Ways to Search for a Frog: Linguistic Typology and the Expression of Motion Events.The source text enjoys high academic value,and can be used as reference in the field of cognitive linguistics at home and abroad.Based on the linguistic and cultural differences between Chinese and English,this translation report focuses on the analysis of the subjects and passive structures of the source text,and the selection of translation strategies,so as to contribute to the translation of such texts in the future.