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Study of Discourse and Register Analysis Approaches in Translation

Zhang Li

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The discourse and register analysis approaches discussed in this essay based on the model of Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics which links micro-level linguistic choices to the communicative function of a text and the social cultural meaning behind it. House's model of register analysis is designed to compare an ST-TT pair for situational variables, genre, function and language. Baker's analysis is particularly useful in focusing on the thematic and cohesion structures of a text. Hatim and Mason move beyond House's register analysis and begin to consider the pragmatic and semiotic dimensions of translation and the sociolinguistic and semiotic implication of discourses and discourse communities.

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Key concepts: Register (sociolinguistics), Linguistics, Cohesion (chemistry), Semiotics, Systemic functional linguistics, Discourse analysis, Situational ethics, Meaning (existential)