Pragmatics and Translation

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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The 13 papers included in this book discuss the impact of pragmatic factors on translation from various perspectives, such as the behavioral function of language, politeness principles, relevance principles, and cooperation principles, as well as factors like new and old information, presupposition and implicature, time and space, reference and discourse coherence, the avoidance of direct answers in conversation, and how to achieve the same effect for the target readers as the original readers. The discussed genres of texts mostly include legal, political, humorous, poetic, and other literary works.