Pragmatic Translation
Abstract
In this research, I attempt to draw a picture of the relationship of some of the basic pillars of Pragmatic Studies – Speech Acts, Presupposition, and Relevance Theory – to Translation Studies and the boundries of that relation. In doing so, I try to include, in revealing this relationship, some ideas about how to evaluate translation from a pragmatic perspective. This research adopts a view that combines “Pragmatics Of Translation” and “Pragmatics In Translation”. At the beginning, I present a historical overview of the term “Pragmatic Translation” and its relationship to the concept of "Equivalence" and to translation types, and the effect of employing the Linguistic Turn in Translation Studies. After that, I move on to reviewing models of this relationship represented in the translation of Speech Acts, Presupposition, and Relevance Theory and their roles in translation research, with reference to some examples through which these relationships become clear.
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المصادر والمراجع
1- المراجع العربية
فاديم ف. سدوبنيكوف وأُولغا ف. بتروفا 2010 (مترجم): نظرية التَّرجمة، تر: عماد محمود طحينة، منشورات جامعة الملك سعود، الطَّبعة الأُولى.
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A. Neubert & G. M. Shereve 1992: Translation as Text. The Kent State University Press.
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C. Nord 1997: A Functional Typology of Translation. in A. Trosborg (Ed.): Text Typology and Translation. John Benjamins.
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C. Schaffner 1999: Translation and Norms. Multilingual Matters Ltd.
D. Wilson 1995: Relevance and Understanding. in G. Brown, K. Malmkjar, A. Pollitt and J. Williams (Eds): Language and Understanding. pp. 35-58. Oxford University Press.
D. Sperber & D. Wilson 1995: Relevance: Communication and Cognition. 2nd Edi. Blackwell.
E-A. Gutt 1989: Relevance and Translation. PhD Dissertation, University College London.
E-A. Gutt 2000. Pragmatic Aspects of Translation: Some Relevance-Theory Observations. in L. Hickey (Ed.): The Pragmatics of Translation. Multilingual Matters Lt, UK.
E-A. Gutt 2010: Relevance and Translation: Cognition and Context. 2nd Edition. Routledge.
E. Kitis 2009: The Pragmatic Infrastructure of Translation. Tradução & Comunicação 18: 63-85.
Fabio Alves & Jose Luiz Goncalves 2010: Relevance and Translation. in Y. Gambier & L. van Doorslaer (Eds): Handbook of Translation Studies. Vol. I. John Benjamins.
F. Delogu 2009: Presupposition. in J. Verschueren & Jan-Ola Ostman (Eds.): Key Notions for Pragmatics. John Benjamins.
J. Al-Qinai 2000: Translation Quality Assessment: Strategies, Parameters and Procedures. Meta 45 (3).
J. C. Sager 1997: Text Types and Translation. in A. Trosborg (Ed.): Text Typology and Translation. John Benjamins.
Jean-Paul Vinay & Jean Darbelnet 1995: Comparative Stylistics of French and English: A Methodology for Translation. (Translated and Edited by Juan C. Sager & M.-J. Hamel) John Benjamins.
J. F. Ehrman 1993: Pragmatics and Translation: the Problem of Presupposition. TTR 6 (1): 149-69.
J. House (Ed.) 2014: Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Palgrave Macmillan.
J. House 2015: Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present. Routledge.
J. House 2018: Translation Studies and Pragmatics. In C. Ilie & N. R. Norrick (Eds.): Pragmatics and its Interfaces. John Benjamins.
M. Dascal 1981. Contextualism. in H. Parret (Ed.): Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics. Proceeding of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino July 8-14/1979. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
M. Shuttleworth & M. Cowie 2014: Dictionary of Translation Studies. Routledge. (1997 by St. Jerome Publishing).
M. Snell-Hornby 1988: Translation Studies: An Integrated Approach. John Benjamins.
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P. Fawcett 2000: Presupposition and Translation. in L. Hickey (Ed.): The Pragmatics of Translation. Multilingual Matters Lt. UK.
P. Newmark 1988: Pragmatic Translation and Literalism. TTR: Traduction, terminologie, rédaction, Vol. 1(2): p.133-145.
R. Reinelt 2003: Translating Arabic Speech Action Expressions. in D. B. Parkinson & S. Farwaneh (Eds): Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, Vol.XV. Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Salt Lake City 2001. John Benjamins.
S. Bassnett 2002: Translation Studies. 3rd Edition. Routledge.
S. Dicerto 2018: Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation: A New Model for Source Text Analysis. pp.37-59. Palgrave Macmillan.
Sandra L. Halverson 2013: Implications of Cognitive Linguistics for Translation Studies. in A. Rogo & I. Ibarretxe-Antunano (Eds.): Cognitive Linguistics and Translation: Advances in Some Theoretical Models and Applications. De Gruyter Mouton.
Y. Cui & Y. Zhao 2018: Implicature and Presupposition in Translation and Interpreting. in K. Malmkjær (Ed): The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies and Linguis
1- المراجع العربية
فاديم ف. سدوبنيكوف وأُولغا ف. بتروفا 2010 (مترجم): نظرية التَّرجمة، تر: عماد محمود طحينة، منشورات جامعة الملك سعود، الطَّبعة الأُولى.
ليلى بوخميس 2016: نظرية أَفعال الكلام ودورها في التَّرجمة، ص161- 162، (مجلة العربيَّة والتَّرجمة، المجلد 8، العدد 27، ص ص 161- 180).
2- المراجع الأجنبية
A. Neubert & G. M. Shereve 1992: Translation as Text. The Kent State University Press.
B. Hatim 2001: Pragmatics and Translation. in M. Baker & K. Malmkjier (Eds): Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. Routledge.
C. Nord 1997: A Functional Typology of Translation. in A. Trosborg (Ed.): Text Typology and Translation. John Benjamins.
C. Nord 2016: Skopos and (Un)certainty: How Functional Translators Deal with Doubt. Meta 6 (11): 29-41.
C. Schaffner 1999: Translation and Norms. Multilingual Matters Ltd.
D. Wilson 1995: Relevance and Understanding. in G. Brown, K. Malmkjar, A. Pollitt and J. Williams (Eds): Language and Understanding. pp. 35-58. Oxford University Press.
D. Sperber & D. Wilson 1995: Relevance: Communication and Cognition. 2nd Edi. Blackwell.
E-A. Gutt 1989: Relevance and Translation. PhD Dissertation, University College London.
E-A. Gutt 2000. Pragmatic Aspects of Translation: Some Relevance-Theory Observations. in L. Hickey (Ed.): The Pragmatics of Translation. Multilingual Matters Lt, UK.
E-A. Gutt 2010: Relevance and Translation: Cognition and Context. 2nd Edition. Routledge.
E. Kitis 2009: The Pragmatic Infrastructure of Translation. Tradução & Comunicação 18: 63-85.
Fabio Alves & Jose Luiz Goncalves 2010: Relevance and Translation. in Y. Gambier & L. van Doorslaer (Eds): Handbook of Translation Studies. Vol. I. John Benjamins.
F. Delogu 2009: Presupposition. in J. Verschueren & Jan-Ola Ostman (Eds.): Key Notions for Pragmatics. John Benjamins.
J. Al-Qinai 2000: Translation Quality Assessment: Strategies, Parameters and Procedures. Meta 45 (3).
J. C. Sager 1997: Text Types and Translation. in A. Trosborg (Ed.): Text Typology and Translation. John Benjamins.
Jean-Paul Vinay & Jean Darbelnet 1995: Comparative Stylistics of French and English: A Methodology for Translation. (Translated and Edited by Juan C. Sager & M.-J. Hamel) John Benjamins.
J. F. Ehrman 1993: Pragmatics and Translation: the Problem of Presupposition. TTR 6 (1): 149-69.
J. House (Ed.) 2014: Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Palgrave Macmillan.
J. House 2015: Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present. Routledge.
J. House 2018: Translation Studies and Pragmatics. In C. Ilie & N. R. Norrick (Eds.): Pragmatics and its Interfaces. John Benjamins.
M. Dascal 1981. Contextualism. in H. Parret (Ed.): Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics. Proceeding of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino July 8-14/1979. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
M. Shuttleworth & M. Cowie 2014: Dictionary of Translation Studies. Routledge. (1997 by St. Jerome Publishing).
M. Snell-Hornby 1988: Translation Studies: An Integrated Approach. John Benjamins.
M. Snell-Hornby 2006: the Turns of Translation Studies: New Paradigms or Shifting Viewpoint? Benjamins Translation Library, Vol.66,. John Benjamins.
P. Fawcett 2000: Presupposition and Translation. in L. Hickey (Ed.): The Pragmatics of Translation. Multilingual Matters Lt. UK.
P. Newmark 1988: Pragmatic Translation and Literalism. TTR: Traduction, terminologie, rédaction, Vol. 1(2): p.133-145.
R. Reinelt 2003: Translating Arabic Speech Action Expressions. in D. B. Parkinson & S. Farwaneh (Eds): Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, Vol.XV. Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Salt Lake City 2001. John Benjamins.
S. Bassnett 2002: Translation Studies. 3rd Edition. Routledge.
S. Dicerto 2018: Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation: A New Model for Source Text Analysis. pp.37-59. Palgrave Macmillan.
Sandra L. Halverson 2013: Implications of Cognitive Linguistics for Translation Studies. in A. Rogo & I. Ibarretxe-Antunano (Eds.): Cognitive Linguistics and Translation: Advances in Some Theoretical Models and Applications. De Gruyter Mouton.
Y. Cui & Y. Zhao 2018: Implicature and Presupposition in Translation and Interpreting. in K. Malmkjær (Ed): The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies and Linguis
Published
2026-01-31
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Abdel-Raheem, M. A. (2026). Pragmatic Translation. Tadāwuliyāt, 3(2), 24- 52. Retrieved from http://journals.lagh-univ.dz/index.php/tad/article/view/4503
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