摘要:Pragmatics, often defined as the study of language use and language users, sets out to explain what people wish to achieve and how they go about achieving it in using language. Such a study is clearly of direct relevance to an understanding of translation and translators. The thirteen chapters in this volume show how translation - skill, art, process and product - is affected by pragmatic factors such as the acts performed by people when they use language, how writers try to be polite, relevant and cooperative, the distinctions they make between what their readers may already know and what is likely to be new to them, what is presupposed and what is openly affirmed, time and space, how they refer to things and make their discourse coherent, how issues may be hedged or attempts made to produce in readers of the translation effects equivalent to those stimulated in readers of the original. Particular attention is paid to legal, political, humorous, poetic and other literary texts.
本书所收13篇论文从不同角度论述了语用因素对翻译的影响,如:语言的行为功能、礼貌原则、相关原则以及合作原则、新信息与旧信息、前提与明示、时间与空间、指称和语篇连贯、会话的避免正面回答以及如何使译文读者获得与原文读者等同效果等因素。
所收论文讨论的范文体裁多为法律、政治、幽默、诗歌及其他文学作品。