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1、JournalofTranslation,Volume2,Number2(2006)43ARelevanceTheoryPerspectiveonTranslatingtheImplicitInformationinLiteraryTextsSangZhonggangSangZhonggang,atranslationteacherinTianshuiNormalUniversity,beganhisresearchintotranslationintheCityofLanzhouinChina.HeholdsaB.A.inAppliedLinguis
2、ticsfromNorthwestNormalUniversityofChina,andanM.A.intranslationstudiesfromLanzhouUniversity.SanghaspublishedanumberofarticlesontranslationbothinChinaandinHongKong.Recentlyhehasbeendoingresearchonthecognitiveandpragmaticstudyofliterarytranslation.AbstractAsonetypeofcross-cultural
3、communication,theliterarytranslationismoredifficultforthetranslatorashehastodealwithalargechunkofimplicitinformation.Theimplicitinformationhasasitscharacteristics,suchasgradedcommunicability,context-dependence,thecorrelationamongtheimplicitinformation,textandcontext,etc.Thesecha
4、racteristicsrestrictthecommunicabilityoftheliterarytextsinanothercontext,sothetranslatoroftheliterarytextsoftenfindsmoredifficultiesintranslating.EncouragedbyGutt’stheoryandhisrecentfindings,thisarticleadoptsarelevancetheoryapproachandattemptstopresentacognitivestudyoftheimplici
5、tinformationinliterarytexts.Itexperimentswithbuildinganexplanatoryframeworkfortranslatingtheimplicitinformationinliterarytexts.Theframeworkisbasedonanewnotion:translationisclues-basedinterpretiveuseoflanguageacrosslanguageboundaries.1.IntroductionLiteraryworks,whicharewrittentex
6、ts,arecharacterizedby“carefuluseoflanguage,beingwritteninaliterarygenre(poetry,prosefiction,ordrama),beingreadaesthetically,andcontainingmanyweakimplicatures”(Meyer1997:24).Theweakimplicaturesaretheimplicitinformationintheliterarytexts.Ontheonehand,owingtotheimplicitinformationi
7、ntheliterarytexts,theauthorofthesourcetextoftenbecomesmorecapableofcommunicatingarichnessofideas,feelingsandimpressionsthatarenotnecessarilyexpressedinwords.Meanwhile,bytheimplicitinformation,theauthorendowstheliterarytextswiththeiruniquedensity,asthetextsrichinimplicitinformati
8、onusuallycostthereadermoreconceptualefforttopro
