Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)

A Contrastive Analysis of Two English Versions of the Diplomatese in Zuozhuan from the Perspective of Pragmatic Equivalence

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He Yongmei
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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.83How to use a DOI?
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pragmatic equivalence; illocutionary force; diplomatic language; Zuozhuan; speech act theory
Abstract

Based on an all-sided investigation of the diplomatic language materials in Zuozhuan, we have made a contrastive analysis between two English versions of Diplomatiese of Zuozhuan from the perspective of retrieving and re-expressing the illocutionary force(one is The Chun Ts’ew with the Tso Chuen translated by James Legge, the other is Zuozhuan translated by Hu Zhihui). On the basis of the practical application we find that speech act theory can be a practical guide to translation and try to summarize some revelatory points on the speech acts theoretic approach to achieve pragmatic equivalence in translation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2018
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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.83
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.83How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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