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HASSANE LOUNIS–RELEVANCE THEORY: HOW USEFUL IS IT TO TRANSLATING DISCOURSE CONNECTIVES?
This paper investigates DCs and particularly problems, which might be the result of
their translation on the basis of Blakemore’s and Gutt’s works.
The study is three-fold: what do DCs refer to? An attempt to shed some light on
the basics of RT and finally how one could use this model to handle with care DCs in
translation.
WHAT ARE DCs?
By DCs is meant words similar to those emphasised:
Anthony does not eat chocolate because he is diabetic.
Although Tennessee is Al Gore’s home state, its voters preferred Senator Bush.
She failed in her oral interview. But she is a gifted person.
He has IT skills. Moreover, he knows bits and bites about hardware.
How to refer to the language material in question (DCs) is, in itself, problematic!
Different researchers label them with a name that does not contradict their linguistic
convictions. Consider the following list: cue phrases, discourse connectives, discourse
operators, discourse particles, discourse signalling devices, extra sentential links, indicating
devices, phatic connectives, pragmatic devices, pragmatic formatives, markers, and
particles, semantic conjuncts and sentence connectives. A number of other labels are also
used.
From a theoretical point of view, there are a number of views which differ from the
way DCs are looked at, their function and impact on discourse. The disparity between
those views is significant and in some instances contradicting. Arguably, the most
influential ones, as stated earlier, are the coherence/cohesion approach and RT.
The model adopted for the present study is Blakemore’s analysis, which analyses
DCs from RT point of view.
Before going into details on Blakemore’s view, one has to understand what RT is
about?
THE BASICS OF R.T.
It is probably the most growing approach in popularity in recent years. It is the
result of a study carried out by Sperber and Wilson (1986).
Due to space factors, it is not possible to explain the minute details of this
approach. However, what might be feasible is to outline the main points RT is based upon.
R.T. is based on cognition. By cognition, it is referred to the use of the human mental
powers to communicate. RT regards human communication as a more complex process
than a volume of words governed by a number of grammatical rules. Even by adding some
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