6.5.1 Supplement of semantic slots of default valu...
Image-G accretion strategy implies that incoming elements adopted by translators are a Gestalt supplement derived from the filling up of the semantic slots in default value of Gestalt attributes.As Sweetser(1999)concludes,default value consists of semantic slots that are assumed to pertain in a discourse situation.In a sense,default value could be conceived as a specific relationship between the linguistic level and its underlying Gestalt-like conceptualization rather than as a pragmatic link connecting linguistic expressions and its semantic slots in literary discourse(Talmy,2006).The holistic representations of image-G accretion reflect the Gestalt-like conceptualizations of situations or scenes and holistic conceptualization is further strengthened by a series of semantic slots.Thus,there is no reason to keep translators from extending the semantic slots to more comprehensive conceptual structure and to relate them to the complex patterns of image-G accretion used in the conceptualization of literary discourse.
It should be pointed out that all semantic slots are not fixed structures but are assembled in the course of translators'processing.Their configuration is dynamic and depends both on translators'existing knowledge structure and their particular experiential base(Tannen,2003).Translators have no difficulty in calling up large quantities of thematic and aesthetic elements of certain Gestalt attributes which are quite unique to the empirically relevant images.These Gestalt attributes tend to denote empirical clue rather than linguistic form.Yet,sometimes thematic and aesthetic elements of certain Gestalt attributes in the conceptual content of literary discourse can potentially offer a schema disruption,a challenge to the translators'existing knowledge structure.The potential Gestalt disruption is supposed to be resolved not by a Gestalt refreshment but by a powerful act of Gestalt accretion.It can make translators aware of many aspects of translation consciousness of image-G accretion and,to a limited extent,can enlarge their capacities for conscious awareness.Summing up at this point,it appears that the overall effect of image-G accretion strategy is to map transcendental concepts of default value into the schema of the translators'personal sense and conceptualization:a accretion of the image-G schema in the strongest and most empirically relevant images.(https://www.daowen.com)
Essentially,the filling up of semantic slots of default values provides the largest amount of relevant and digestible Gestalt information about certain images and situational scenes in specific literary discourse,or,to put it more technically,it offers the largest bundles of correlated Gestalt attributes that could be deemed as associative and experiential attributes and an integral part of conceptualizations of situations or scenes.These attributes are accumulated in their most holistic form in transcendental concepts and expressed by conceptualizations of situations or scenes in literary discourse.Rooted in the tradition of pragmatic reasoning,their most holistic situational form seems to provide a fairly systematic and logical approach to the cognitive input of Gestalt attributes.Obviously the supplement of semantic slot plays a major role within operation frames of image-G accretion.Loosely speaking,it act both as anchors and as triggers for translators'practical operation in image-G accretion,because it is in the Gestalt configuration of semantic slots among default value and their interrelations that operation frames are carried out and it is by the same conceptual structures that they are activated.