关键词: “因果”概念, 因果复句语序, 关联标记模式, 关联词

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of the order of English causeeffect complex sentences on the Chinese lexical representations of causeeffect concepts in the task of EnglishChinese translation. The results show that the order of the English causeeffect complex sentences has a significant effect on the order of the Chinese correspondents, causality connective patterns and on the choice of different connective words in Chinese translation. Therefore, the causeeffect complex sentence order, the causality connective pattern and connective words are working together to represent causeeffect concepts in Chinese complex sentences, in the process of which “the principle of temporal sequence”, the profiling and subjectivity are important cognitive mechanisms.

Key words: causeeffect concept, complex sentence order, causality connective pattern, connective word