The Pragmatics of Translation

This volume's 13 chapters show how translation is affected by pragmatic factors: relevance, politeness, co-operativeness, references, speech acts, discourse coherence, hedging, effects stimulated in readers of original and translated texts, distinctions between new information and what readers alrea [...]
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This volume's 13 chapters show how translation is affected by pragmatic factors: relevance, politeness, co-operativeness, references, speech acts, discourse coherence, hedging, effects stimulated in readers of original and translated texts, distinctions between new information and what readers already know, what is presupposed and what is stated, space and time.