Pragmatic Failure in Interpretation and the Development of Students’ Pragmatic Competence in Interpreting

Licheng Lu

English Language Teaching, 2019, vol. 12, issue 3, 37

Abstract: Based on Jenny Thomas’s dichotomous classification of pragmatic failure, this study proposes a new perspective and classifies pragmatic failure in interpretation into three categories- pragma-linguistic failure, socio-pragmatic failure and malaprop-pragmatic failure. Specific examples are given to illustrate the causes and effects of each category of pragmatic failure in interpretation. Meanwhile, this study establishes the “curriculum-textbook-teacher-teaching” scheme to develop students’ pragmatic competence in interpreting with which they are able to avoid pragmatic failure in interpretation.

Date: 2019
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