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g Wei’spoems to figure out translation strategies and several translation methods.As far as the research method is concerned, traditional scholars usually focus on theanalysis of Wang Wei’s poem from the perspective of relevance theory,receptionaesthetics, functional theories, operational theory and so on. However, different fromthe traditional approaches mentioned above, semiotic approach is adopted to studytranslation equivalence of Wang Wei’s poems in this thesis. Within the scope ofSemiotics, Morrisdivides meaning into semantic, syntactic and pragmatic meaning,which enable semiotics study to includeall the elements, namely, linguistics,pragmatics and cultural elements. That is to say, Semiotics analyzes all kinds ofphenomena in society and culture, including both verbal and nonverbal signs, whichmakes it possible for Semiotics to be the theoretical foundation of any otherdisciplines, including translation, which deals with processes of encoding anddecoding messages in different sign systems. This thesis will adopt semiotic approachto provide a more systematic, comprehensive and coherent study of translation ofWang Wei’s poetry.All in all, it is especially important for us to study theEnglish version of Wang Wei’spoems. Semiotic approach has earned itself a significant position in the practice oftranslation and can be applied to analyze English translation of Wang Wei’s poems,putting forward appropriate translation strategies and translation methods to helpbetter spread Wang Wei’s poems as well as Chinese culture to western countries.
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CHAPTERII LITERATURE REVIEW

As the title suggests, this chapter is a general review of studies on Wang Wei’spoems and its English version. It explores previous studies on the translation of WangWei’s poems from traditional perspectives such as the perspective of relevance theoryand the perspective of reception aesthetics respectively, indicating the limitations ofprevious studies and proposing the significance of this research.

2.1 Previous Studies on the Translation of Wang Wei’s Poems
For decades, many translators at home and aboard translate Wang Wei’s poems,many of which portrays quiet scenes of water and mist, with little human presence.Unfortunately, research of English versions of Wang Wei’s poems is relatively few.Western scholars usually illustrate his/her understanding of Wang Wei’s poemsor feelings when translating Wang Wei’s poems such as Nineteen Ways of Looking atWang Wei, compiled by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz, which contains a simplefour-line poem The Deer Enclosure. The book gives the original text in Chinesecharacters, a transliteration in the pinyin system, a character-by-character translation,13 translations in English with Weinberger’s lucid comments, considering to be amasterpiece of study of Wang Wei’s translation works. Numbers of studies on thetranslation of Wang Wei’s poems are relatively small and there is no systematic studywith many perspectives in western countries.
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2.2 Limitations of Previous Studies
Most of the studies on English translation of Wang Wei’s poemsare from theperspectives of relevance theory, reception aesthetics, manipulation theory, functionalanalysis, intertextualityand foreignization, however, fewresearch has been carried outfrom the Semiotics perspective. The distinctive feature of Semioticsis that itconcentrates on the articulation of meani