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A Pragmatic Concept of Translation* Hsiu-Hwang Ho1.The aim of this paper Translation is a fairly common activity known to most of us. It is an activity of rewriting a body of discourse into another body of discourse upon the condition that between the original body of discourse and the resulting one, there exists some certain sort of relationship. What exactly this relationship is, I shall try to specify in this discussion. However, I am not going to develop a complete theory of translation. What I wish to do is this: to consider translation as a linguistic activity which can be illuminated