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The Pragmatics of Translation (Paperback)
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The Pragmatics of Translation (Paperback)
Series: Topics in Translation
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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.
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