A Contrastive Analysis of Two English Versions of the Diplomatese in Zuozhuan from the Perspective of Pragmatic Equivalence

摘要

Based on an all-sided investigation of the diplomatic language materials in Zuozhuan, we have made a contrastive analysis between two English versions of Diplomatiese of Zuozhuan from the perspective of retrieving and re-expressing the illocutionary force(one is The Chun Ts'ew with the Tso Chucn translated by James Legge, the other is Zuozhuan translated by Hu Zhihui). On the basis of the practical application we find that speech act theory can be a practical guide to translation and try to summarize some revelatory points on the speech acts theoretic approach to achieve pragmatic equivalence in translation.