Pragmatics of Translatn the

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.

About the author

Leo Hickey is a Research Professor at the University of Salford. His research centres on studies of stylistics, pragmatics, pragmastylistics and translation studies, with particular reference to legal translation. He is the author of several books and over a hundred articles on Spanish literature and language.

Product details

• Authors: Hickey, Leo Hickey
• Assisted by: Leo Hickey (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 322 g
• Series: Topics in Translation; Topics in Translation
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics