Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Часть 1

Секция 2 • Panel 2 Проблемы литератур Дальнего Востока. Т. 1. 2018 248 1973) Therefore, as Daiyu herself knows the exact situation of her status in the Jia family, and since she has no one to rely on to make decision for her, she is constantly in lack of the sense of security. Thus this is disclosed in her way of speaking, she frequently uses adversative transitions meanwhile shows no adversative intention. In conclusion, as some details in the dialogue have been neglected in the translation might prevent the reader from the empathizing with the character, and this also initiate misunderstanding because of such cultural barrier on the linguistic basis. Therefore, a closer observation of these specific cultural words missed out in the translation, will hopefully bridge the further communication on the premise of mutual understanding. 2.2. Potentiality of the Cultural LinguisticsApproach to The Dream of the Red Chamber As it was mentioned in the introduction part, The Dream of the Red Chamber has been widely studied for centuries, but not until the 1990s that scholars started to alter their attentions from aesthetic and literary studies to the linguistic approach. Why the cultural linguistics approach to The Dream of Red Chamber is essential? In the first place, from the linguistics perspective, ‘cultural linguistics is a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language, culture, and conceptualization’ (Palmer, 1996). Also, ‘as a sub-discipline of linguistics with a multidisciplinary origin, cultural linguistics explores the interface between language, culture, and conceptualization’ (Palmer and Sharifian, 2007) Recently, cultural linguistics has been widely adopted as the approach to decipher the cultural codes hidden in the literary works, according to Sharifian, cultural linguistics has drawn on several other disciplines and sub-disciplines in the process of developing a theoretical framework that affords an integrated understanding of the notions of “cognition” and “culture” as they relate to language’. This framework is one that may be best described as cultural cognition and language in that it proposed a view of cognition that has life at the level of culture, under the concept of culturalcognition. (Sharifian, 2011) In the second place, as The Dream of the Red Chamber is a product of a particular time period and a particular social class. The interpretations through purely linguistic theory detached from the context will merely create misunderstandings. Furthermore, The Dream of the Red Chamber serves as the best experimental field for Chinese studies from the cultural 9 linguistics perspective. Since the author Cao Xueqin himself was born and raised in a declined Baiqi aristocratic family, having had been exposed to detailed narratives from the elders about the strict etiquettes in a Baqi family, Cao’s novel greatly reflected the aristocratic Manchu cultural heritage through its language. Great families such as the Jia’s in The Dream of the Red Chamber, is a special type of aristocratic class that merely existed in the Qing dynasty, which is the elite class under the Eight Banner system. So as M. C. Elliott explains, ‘By the late 1700s,