Performative Linguistics

The idea of faithfulness and reformulation of the Gricean maxims for the needs of translation

“…The application of the Gricean CP to translation is based on a number of presumptions. Robinson (2003) claims that there is little evidence to support the non-universality of the Gricean CP. He refers to the important role of the Gricean implicature for translators if they want to 'act on the reader' and 'do something through their translations' (Robinson 2003).…”

“…Robinson (2003) claims that there is little evidence to support the non-universality of the Gricean CP. He refers to the important role of the Gricean implicature for translators if they want to 'act on the reader' and 'do something through their translations' (Robinson 2003). He states that "the pathway to applying Grice in translation studies lies through the presumption of equivalence: whatever the source author or speaker does verbally, […] the translator must seek to follow it in as effective and representative a manner as possible. "…”

“…The addressee, based on the context, should work out the communicated implicature. The Gricean CP was employed by some leading translation scholars because they believe that translation is an act of intentional communication per se (Blum-Kulka 1981;Baker 1992;Neubert and Shreve 1992;Mason 1990, 1997;Hatim 1997;Fawcett 1997;Venuti 1998;Robinson 2003;Malmkjear 2005Malmkjear , 1998. 1 In fact, for these scholars, translation is a kind of 'intercultural cooperation' between the two sides.…”

“…2 They claim that to cooperate with the target receivers translators might violate the same Gricean maxims (or others) to convey a similar meaning. However, rarely any attempts have been done to adjust the Gricean maxims for cross-cultural contexts including translation since the maxims are culture-bound in nature (Chapman 2011;Wierzbicka 1991) and are in need of cultural and social adjustment 3 (see Baker 1992;Machali 1999Machali , 2012Robinson 2003;Hatim 2006;Dynel 2009). Given the widespread use of the Gricean maxims in translation, the present article aims at reformulating them to the pragmatic needs of translation within the scope of Sperber and Wilson's (1995) principle of relevance 4 (the cognitive concept of faithfulness) and in the light of Clark's (1996) Conceptual Common Ground theory.…”

Personality Traits and Translation Quality: An Investigation of the Relationship in Iran Context

“…Similarly, translator's personality traits which affect different behaviors, cause translators' success or failure in their process of translation. Robinson (2003) stated that the psychology of translation is still undeveloped. To fill the gap, in this study, translators' personality traits and its possible impact on translation quality are discussed.…”