At the Intersection of Meaning: Pragmatics in Language Teaching and Translation
Özet
Addressing the gaps among translation, pragmatics, and language learning is more than a linguistic endeavor; it has been a necessity long-neglected for unlocking deeper effective communication among individuals and across cultures. Pragmatics, the linguistic field handling covert conventions in interaction, also dealing with meaning shifts continuously altered by contextual factors, intertwines with translation on many levels. More than swapping words with their equivalents across one language to another, translation has more to do with transferring emotion, meaning, emotion, and cultural quality. Combined, pragmatics and translation can provide a substantial approach to fostering learners' ability to convey meaning both effectively and meaningfully. Concerning the negotiation of meaning across various contexts, tasks involving translation activity provide learners with the opportunity to polish their pragmatic awareness and think critically about how language functions in daily conventions. Bringing about some practical teaching strategies and approaches that make pragmatics instruction engaging, the chapter intends to provide insight into the intricate details of combining translation activity with language learning in a great many ways. Mentioning the importance of instructional factors, translation strategies, and various other factors concerning language teaching and translation, the chapter hints at some systematic and enjoyable opportunities for future research. For example, what kind of roles do digital platforms play in teaching when combined with the essence of pragmatic communication? In which ways translation tasks can have more pragmatic value? Also, how do learners build intercultural pragmatic competence to survive in this globalized world as interactively engaged individuals? By exploring answers to these questions, language instructors can assist learners in harnessing their present skills through complex communicative situations with self-confidence, empathy, and cultural conformity as well.
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Bardovi-Harlig, K. (2001). Evaluating the empirical evidence. Pragmatics in language teaching,
Bardovi-Harlig, K., & Dörnyei, Z. (1998). Do language learners recognize pragmatic violations? Pragmatic vs. grammatical awareness in instructed L2 learning. TESOL Quarterly, 32(2), 233–259.
Beaver, D. I. (2001). Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics. CSLI Publications.
Culbertson, G., Shen, S., Jung, M., & Andersen, E. (2022). Facilitating Development of Pragmatic Competence through a Voice-driven Video Learning Interface. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 42(1), 40–55. https://interplay.infosci.cornell.edu/assets/papers/facilitating.pdf
Ehrman, J. F. (1993). Pragmatics and translation: the problem of presupposition. TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction, 6(1), 149-170.
Leech, G. (1983). Principles of pragmatics. London and New York: Longman.
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House, J. (2018). Translation studies and pragmatics. In Pragmatics and its interfaces (pp. 143-162). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Kasper, G. (2001). Classroom research on interlanguage pragmatics. Pragmatics in language teaching, 33-60.
Kasper, G., & Rose, K. R. (2002). Pragmatic Development in a Second Language. Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies, 52, 1.
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Kroeger, P. R. (2019). Translating Presuppositions. The Bible Translator, 70(2), 167–183. https://doi.org/10.1177/2051677019850262
Levinson, Stephen (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
LoCastro, V. (2013). Pragmatics for language educators: A sociolinguistic perspective. Routledge.
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Morris, Ch.U. (1983). Osnovaniya teorii znakov. Per. s angl. Semiotika / Sost.,vstup. statya i obshch. red. Yu.S. Stepanova. Moscow: Raduga.
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Rose, K. R., & Kasper, G. (Eds.). (2001). Pragmatics in language teaching (Vol. 10). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schmidt, R. W. (1993). Awareness and second language acquisition. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 13, 206–26.
Soler, E. A., & Flor, A. M. (Eds.). (2008). Investigating pragmatics in foreign language learning, teaching and testing. Multilingual Matters.
Taguchi, N. (2021). Second language learners' competence of and beliefs about implicature comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 801315.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.801315
Tatsuki, D. (2019). Instructional material development in L2 pragmatics. In The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and pragmatics (pp. 322-337). Routledge.
Thomas, J. (1983). Cross-cultural pragmatic failure. Applied linguistics, 4(2), 91-112.
Tolibova, N. N., & Pulatova, S. K. (2021). The Concept of Translation and Pragmatics. Uzbekistan: Scientific reports, Bukhara State University.
Tomlinson, C. A. (2017). How to differentiate instruction in academically diverse classrooms. Ascd.
Tunçel, R. (2022). Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition - A Journey from Philosophy to Classroom Practice. Ankara: Nobel Akademi.
Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Zhang, Y., & Wang, Y. (2023). The Empowerment of Pragmatic Competence towards Translation Teaching: A Bibliometric Analysis. Frontiers in Linguistics Studies, 5(2), 10–25. https://journals.bilpubgroup.com/index.php/fls/article/view/7219
