Pragmatics and Translation

Author: Hiki
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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 different perspectives, such as the behavioral function of language, politeness principles, relevance principles, and cooperation principles, as well as factors like new and old information, presuppositions and explicitation, 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 papers cover a variety of genre styles, including legal, political, humorous, poetic, and other literary works.