《大卫·科波菲尔》中指示词的语用分析与翻译——以张谷若译本为例外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

I I Acknowledgements First, I would like to show my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Associate Professor Dai Yuqun, who has kindly helped me through every stage of my thesis writing. Without his patient guidance and insightful suggestions, I would not have completed this thesis within the deadline. Second, I would like to express heartfelt thanks to all the other teachers who have taught me academic courses in my pursuit of the MA degree. Those teachers to whom I am so greatly indebted include: Professor Chen Shanzhen, Professor Zhao Xia, Professor Zhou Weijing, Associate Professors Fang Xiaoyong, Ge Jihong, Wang Jin, Zeng Jingting, Zhang Hongyan and Zhou Shujun. Last but not least, I am immensely grateful for my parents and my husband, whose love and encouragement have also contributed a lot to the completion of the thesis. And my thanks also go to my classmates Wang Ling, Xu Yang, Yang Yuan and Zhang Xueqian, who have also provided me with constructive suggestions and rendered me every help possible. Ab Abstract II II Abstract This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of pragmatics and translation. Pragmatics studies the actual use of language in a specific context or situation while translation, as a process of transferring both the meaning and cultural message between two texts, also treats language as the specimen for study. Pragmatics assists the translator to understand the intended meaning in the original text and provides a new dimension for translation studies. Translation is a communicative process and cross-cultural practice. The language-oriented similarity makes it possible for the integration of the two disciplines. In the eyes of many people, demonstratives are no more than kid’s play. However, the seeming simplicity of demonstratives may always hide the complexity of them. Demonstratives, as deictic expressions, refer to the distance in space, time and discourse. They integrate textual information with contextual information, introducing, maintai