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Pragmatic Aspects as Tools for Translators | ||
| مجلة آداب البصرة | ||
| Article 3, Volume 13, Issue 81, 2017, Pages 33-58 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hashim Gatea Lazim; Muntaha Ali Abed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Translation is considered to be an interdisciplinary field since it can be studied and applied to different branches of linguistics. One of the common features shared by translation and pragmatics is meaning. On the one hand, pragmatics seeks to identify and disambiguate the implicit meanings in a certain discourse; and on the other hand, translation requires explicating what is implicit in order to produce a correct and clear text. Moreover, pragmatics makes it easy to differentiate between meaning and use. Hence, translators can use the different aspects of pragmatics as tools which assist to analyze a certain discourse appropriately. Speech acts, cooperative principle, implicature, politeness, presupposition and deixis constitute the main aspects of pragmatics which are used in daily conversations whether written or spoken. Pragmatic aspects can be applied as useful tools to translation and can assist translators to identify the pitfalls and weaknesses in rendering a discourse. This paper also sheds light on the most common aspects of pragmatics in relation to translation with explanatory examples excerpted from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter and their translations which are analyzed and compared in order to highlight how translators deal with pragmatic aspects in their translations. | ||
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