The Application of Synesthesia in Xu Yuanchong’s Translation of Chinese Classical Poetry

Baoxia Zuo
Foreign Languages Department, Tianjin Tianshi College, Tianjin, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37420/j.cer.2020.091

Abstract: Synesthesia is not only a physiological and psychological phenomenon, but also a linguistic and cultural phenomenon, as well as an important rhetorical phenomenon. How to translate this rhetorical phenomenon most faithfully is a problem worth studying. This paper will discuss some conventional translation patterns of synesthesia by analyzing Mr. Xu Yuanchong’s treatment of synesthesia in his translation of Chinese classic poems.