关联理论在文学翻译实践中的应用-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

东北林业大学硕士学位论文Abstract 东北林业大学硕士学位论文 Abstract As a new cognitive pragmatic theory，relevance theory greatly influences western pragmatics．Nowadays，its research has been beyond the field of pragmatics，and translation is one of the disciplines significantly influenced．Relevance theory provides the translation studies with a pragmatic perspective．Relevance theory，though not meant for translation but proposed as a foundation for cognitive science，is powerful in accounting for translation．This thesis attempts to apply the relevance theory to literary translation，and the optimal relevance is to be considered as the guideline for translation．And this thesis aims at exploring three issues of translation theory and practice：equivalence，translatability,and the translator’S style，and exploring how to explain them from a relevance-theoretic framework．In order to explain the application of the relevance theory in literary translation，the author of the present thesis has selected some typical examples from three translated versions of the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles for specific analysis． According to the relevance theory，language communication is cognitive process， which must be carried on by inference．Besides，Sperber and Wilson propose relevance principles with great interpretive effects．Relevance theory shifts the key point of pragmatics from utterance production to utterance understanding and points out that language communication is an ostensive—inferential process．The success of communication depends on two conditions：(1)manifestness，and(2)relevance．The goal of human communication is not the maximal relevance，but the optimal relevance．The audience expects to obtain adequate contextual effects with minimal processing effort．The central concepts included in the relevance theory，such as cognitive environment，cognitive efforts，and contextual effect， are introduced to account for the translation phenomena． Translation is a kind of cross-cultural communication．Re