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The application of pragmatic principles to translation 1. Introduction Language is generally believed to be the essential instrument of ethnic expression and belong to a specific cultural group. Language can never be apart from culture. In contemporary strides, translation is regarded more as an inter-cultural communication than an inter-lingual activity. The main function of translation is to promote cultural exchanges and cultural transplanting. Therefore, not only the language structure and discourse but also the cultural characters and social criteria of both languages should be mastered. Translation involves a variety of subjects, such as linguistics, literature, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, etc. And “almost every aspect of life in general and of the interaction between speech communities in particular can be considered relevant to it”, hence the inter-disciplinarily of it. It needs to draw on the findings and theories of other related disciplines in order to develop and formalize its own methods. For many years new approaches and further efforts are necessary and will be of great benefit for the development of the discipline of translation. Among those approaches, a pragmatic one promises to provide great inspirations for translation theorists and translator. To study translation from the perspective of pragmatics has begun to draw the attention of more and more translation theorists home and abroad. In the thesis discuss some pragmatic issues in translation. Including Cooperative Principle, pragmatic equivalence, speech acts in translation, co-operation and translation, politeness and translation, etc. A systematic study of the applicability of pragmatics to translation theories and practice will be innovative. This thesis is a tentative study on the implications of recent research in pragmatics, the principle of relevance in particular, for theoretical development and practical application in the field of translation, with a view to offeri