This study investigates the applicability and effectiveness of pragmatic-stylistic analysis in fictional dialogues.Taking Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story“Come Rain or Come Shine”in Nocturnes:Five Stories of Music and ...This study investigates the applicability and effectiveness of pragmatic-stylistic analysis in fictional dialogues.Taking Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story“Come Rain or Come Shine”in Nocturnes:Five Stories of Music and Nightfall as a case study,a detailed analysis of four fictional dialogues in this story has been conducted in the light of the cooperative principle,the im/politeness theory,and the turn-taking theory.The study has shown that pragmatic-stylistics offers a useful analytical tool in guiding readers to stylistically read character speech forms and interpret textual cues in conversation so as to gain a better insight into the characters’traits,their power relationships as well as the acceleration and deceleration in the narrative development.展开更多
This paper discusses the possibilities and diffi culties of novels surviving translation by looking at translations of two of Kazuo Ishiguro's early works into Japanese. Kazuo Ishiguro, an English writer who is co...This paper discusses the possibilities and diffi culties of novels surviving translation by looking at translations of two of Kazuo Ishiguro's early works into Japanese. Kazuo Ishiguro, an English writer who is conscious that his novels are going to be translated into many languages, tries to write novels that are internationally relevant, by avoiding expressions peculiar to English language or locality. However, despite his efforts to survive translation, paradoxically, his two early works set in Japan, which might be expected to have fewer difficulties in translating into Japanese because of the familiar setting, have some challenges in translation specific to the situation. I will highlight the issue of the domestication of culturally bound words, and then focus on the translation diffi culties that occur as a result of the difference of personal pronouns and speech presentations between English and Japanese.展开更多
文摘This study investigates the applicability and effectiveness of pragmatic-stylistic analysis in fictional dialogues.Taking Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story“Come Rain or Come Shine”in Nocturnes:Five Stories of Music and Nightfall as a case study,a detailed analysis of four fictional dialogues in this story has been conducted in the light of the cooperative principle,the im/politeness theory,and the turn-taking theory.The study has shown that pragmatic-stylistics offers a useful analytical tool in guiding readers to stylistically read character speech forms and interpret textual cues in conversation so as to gain a better insight into the characters’traits,their power relationships as well as the acceleration and deceleration in the narrative development.
文摘This paper discusses the possibilities and diffi culties of novels surviving translation by looking at translations of two of Kazuo Ishiguro's early works into Japanese. Kazuo Ishiguro, an English writer who is conscious that his novels are going to be translated into many languages, tries to write novels that are internationally relevant, by avoiding expressions peculiar to English language or locality. However, despite his efforts to survive translation, paradoxically, his two early works set in Japan, which might be expected to have fewer difficulties in translating into Japanese because of the familiar setting, have some challenges in translation specific to the situation. I will highlight the issue of the domestication of culturally bound words, and then focus on the translation diffi culties that occur as a result of the difference of personal pronouns and speech presentations between English and Japanese.
