Translation practice from the perspective of relevance theory

Relevance theory holds that the language communication of human beings is an estensive-inferential process of searching for relevance. Under the framework of relevance theory, translation is a communication across languages and cultures, involving dual process of communication between the source text writer, the translator and the target text read-ers. Therefore, translation should conform to the already existing communicative principles, i.e. principle of relevance. And a process of translation is actually a reasoning process of searching for optimal relevance.