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1、Nov.2006,Volume4,No.11(SerialNo.38)US-ChinaForeignLanguage,ISSN1539-8080,USAAReviewStudyofRelevanceTheoryandTranslation1LIUYan-fang(ForeignLanguagesSchool,ZhongnanUniversityofEconomics&Law,Wuhan,Hubei430074,China)Abstract:AsacognitivetheoryadvancedbySperberandWilson,RelevanceTheoryrev
2、ealstheinherentfeaturesoflanguagecommunicationinaculture,whichismostlyapplicabletopragmatics.However,RelevanceTheoryseemstoofferafeasibleandconvincingapproachtotranslationonthegroundsthatitviewstranslationasadynamicinferentialprocessandfocusesonthecognitivepropertyoftranslation.Thisre
3、searchmakesanattempttoexploretherevelationoftheprincipleofrelevancewithtranslationtoofferpracticalguidanceoneffectivetranslation.Keywords:RelevanceTheory;translation;theprincipleofrelevance;contextualeffect;processingeffort1.BasicsofRelevanceTheoryIn1986,SperberandWilson(1986:12)advan
4、cedRelevanceTheory,viewinglanguagecommunicationasacognitiveprocess,anostensive-inferentialprocess,closelyrelatedtopeople’spsychologicalactivities.RelevanceTheoryhasachievedsuchprominencemostlybecauseitmakesaseriousattempttoconfrontthequestion“Whatisthenatureandroleofcontext”.However,f
5、orcontexthere,itdoesnotmeanco-textorcontextofsituation,butthesetofassumptionsthehearerhasabouttheworld.Inthissense,contexthereisawideconceptandpotentiallyenormous,includingabsolutelyanyassumptionownedbythehumanmind.Theseassumptionsmaybefrom“informationabouttheimmediatephysicalenvironm
6、entortheimmediatelyprecedingutterances”ortoamuchgreaterextent,from“expectationsaboutthefuture,scientifichypothesesorreligiousbeliefs,anecdotalmemories,generalculturalassumptions,beliefsaboutthementalstateofthespeaker”(Sperber&Wilson,1986:15).Itisquitetruethattherecognitionoftheintende
7、dinterpretation,eventhesuccessofcommunicationdependsgreatlyonwhetherthehearerusesthespeaker-intendedorappropriatecontext.Therightchoiceofcontextualassumptionswillbefollowedbystraightforwardandlogicalinferenceoftheintendedimplication,whereastheuseofwrongassumptionswillcertainlyleadtomi
8、sunde
