Pragmatic Analysis and Translation of English and Chinese Person Deixis
Pragmatic Analysis and Translation of English and Chinese Person Deixis
英汉人称指示语的语用分析及翻译
武汉理工大学外国语学院 李晓惠
广东培正学院 胡敏 广东广州 510830
内容摘要
对比语言学是一门从共时的角度对两种或多种语言进行对比研究的学科。本文尝试分析了语用学中的人称指示语在英语和汉语两种语言中的相同点和不同点，其中主要分析了人称指示语的先用特性及其反先用的用法。本文目的是通过对比分析，把指示语的语用理论更多的运用于翻译中去。
关键词: 英汉人称指示语, 先用与反先用现象, 翻译
Abstract
Contrastive study is a branch of science concerning with two or more languages by exploring the differences and similarities in a synchronic way. This thesis is an attempt to analyze the similarities and diversities of person deixis between English and Chinese，especially to focus on the analysis of the pre-emptive usage and anti-pre-emptiveness of person deixis. The purpose of this thesis is to apply some pragmatic theories on deixis to translation through contrastive analysis.
Keywords: English and Chinese person deixis, pre-emptiveness and anti-pre-emptiveness. translation 1. Introduction
The term deixis is borrowed from the Greek word for pointing or indicating. According to Levinson, “the single most obvious way in which the relationship between language and context is reflected in the structures of languages themselves is through the phenomenon of deixis.” (Levinson, 1983: 54). In sum, deixis is a form of referring that is tied to the speaker’s context, with the most basic distinction between deictic expressions being near speaker versus away from speaker.
Deixis appears to be a universal feature of human communication, which is frequently treated as one of the core areas within pragmatics. Like any other topic in linguistics, deixis itself has its divisions. According to Pragmatics written by Levinson, he classified five major categories of deixis based on other linguists’ researches, which are person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, discourse deixis and social deixis. This thesis only focuses on the analysis of person deixis.
2. Pre-emptiveness and anti-pre-emptiveness
When Levinson (1983) gave a detailed analysis of time deixis, he
英汉人称指示语的语用分析及翻译
武汉理工大学外国语学院 李晓惠
广东培正学院 胡敏 广东广州 510830
内容摘要
对比语言学是一门从共时的角度对两种或多种语言进行对比研究的学科。本文尝试分析了语用学中的人称指示语在英语和汉语两种语言中的相同点和不同点，其中主要分析了人称指示语的先用特性及其反先用的用法。本文目的是通过对比分析，把指示语的语用理论更多的运用于翻译中去。
关键词: 英汉人称指示语, 先用与反先用现象, 翻译
Abstract
Contrastive study is a branch of science concerning with two or more languages by exploring the differences and similarities in a synchronic way. This thesis is an attempt to analyze the similarities and diversities of person deixis between English and Chinese，especially to focus on the analysis of the pre-emptive usage and anti-pre-emptiveness of person deixis. The purpose of this thesis is to apply some pragmatic theories on deixis to translation through contrastive analysis.
Keywords: English and Chinese person deixis, pre-emptiveness and anti-pre-emptiveness. translation 1. Introduction
The term deixis is borrowed from the Greek word for pointing or indicating. According to Levinson, “the single most obvious way in which the relationship between language and context is reflected in the structures of languages themselves is through the phenomenon of deixis.” (Levinson, 1983: 54). In sum, deixis is a form of referring that is tied to the speaker’s context, with the most basic distinction between deictic expressions being near speaker versus away from speaker.
Deixis appears to be a universal feature of human communication, which is frequently treated as one of the core areas within pragmatics. Like any other topic in linguistics, deixis itself has its divisions. According to Pragmatics written by Levinson, he classified five major categories of deixis based on other linguists’ researches, which are person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, discourse deixis and social deixis. This thesis only focuses on the analysis of person deixis.
2. Pre-emptiveness and anti-pre-emptiveness
When Levinson (1983) gave a detailed analysis of time deixis, he