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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hickey, Leo

Titel

THE PRAGMATICS OF TRANSLATION

Ist Teil von

• viii+242pp, Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1998, 1998

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This vol in the Topics in Translation series contains an Introduction & 13 Chpts. Pragmatics, often defined as the study of language use & language users, sets out to explain what people wish to achieve & how they go about achieving it in using language. Such study is of direct relevance to an understanding of translation & translators. The chapters in this volume show how translation - skill, art, process, & product - is affected by pragmatic factors, eg, the acts performed by people when they use language, how writers try to be polite, relevant, & cooperative, the distinctions they make between what their readers may already know & what is likely to be new to them, what is presupposed & what is openly affirmed, time & space, how they refer to things & 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, & other literary texts. Adapted from the source document