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PAGE PAGE 24 A Study on Pragmatic Failures in Chinese-English I. Introduction 1.1 Background information On account of the economic globalization and joining in the World Trade Organization, China has an increasing number of affiliation and communication with all kinds of cultures and areas. With the close relationship between China and other countries, the significance of Chinese-English public signs translations becomes more and more conspicuous. As a kind of guidance tool, public signs show all aspects in China to the foreigners, and appropriate Chinese-English public signs translations reflect the degree of civilization and progress of a country or a city. However, there are still great quantities of improper public signs translations from Chinese to English, which greatly mislead the foreigners’ understanding about China. There are a large number of pragmatic failures in the Chinese-English Public Signs translations. The appropriate translations are supposed to meet the functions of being easy to understand exactly for foreigners.?One of the most important provenience of these inappropriate translations?is pragmatic failure. In 1983, pragmatic failure was proposed by Jenny Thomas for the first time?in her essay Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure, since then?more and more scholars and translators began to study it and they gained great achievements. Settling?the problem of pragmatic failure in public signs translation is the key to making?foreigners have a better understanding about China. 1.2 Purpose and significance of the paper According to the theory of Jenny Thomas’ pragmatic failure, the paper wants to analyze the causes that are in the existing improper public signs translations from Chinese to English, which can help to improve the standard of Chinese-English translation. Besides, the writer is going to provide some tentative suggestions from the point of view of pragmatic investigation to decrease or refrain from pragmatic failures in Chinese-English