Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Notes on Contributors VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Speech Acts and Illocutionary Function in Translation Methodology 10
6. 2. Cooperation and Literary Translation 25
7. 3. Pragmatic Aspects of Translation: Some Relevance-Theory Observations 41
8. 4. Politeness and Translation 54
9. 5 Text Politeness: A Semiotic Regime for a More interactive Pragmatics 72
10. 6. 'New' versus 'old' 103
11. 7 Presupposition and Translation 114
12. 8 Deictic Features and the Translator 124
13. 9 Verb Substitution and Predicate Reference 143
14. 10 Discourse Connectives, Ellipsis and Markedness 170
15. 11 Hedges in Political Texts: A Translational Perspective 185
16. 12 Translating the Pragmatics of Verse in 'Andromaque' 203
17. 13. Perlocutionary Equivalence: Marking, Exegesis and Recontextualisation 217
18. Index 233