Analysis of Translation Strategies Employed in the Thai Translation of the Romantic Comedy The Proposal
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The aims of this paper are twofold: to identify the strategies used in translating the script for the movie The Proposal; and to show how those strategies are employed by the translator on the basis of pragmatics in particular,Grice’s implicature. The data which are investigated are 85 extracts; the findings reveal that two types of paraphrase (related and unrelated) are very common (18 and 23, respectively), as is the use of loan words (25). The violations of maxims are also frequent and dealt with paraphrase with related and unrelated words; and some of them are literally translated, except the maxim of quantity for paraphrases with related words with just one. ‘Explicitation: amplification’ has nine examples, in the midrange. In sharp contrast, the five other strategies come in with very low numbers: three each for omission and cultural substitution, two for paraphrase with a neutral word, and one each for using a general word and illustration.
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ประกาศลิขสิทธิ์จะปรากฏในเกี่ยวกับวารสาร ควรอธิบายสำหรับผู้อ่านและผู้เขียนว่าเจ้าของลิขสิทธิ์เป็นผู้เขียนวารสารหรือบุคคลที่สาม ควรรวมถึงข้อตกลงการอนุญาตเพิ่มเติม (เช่นใบอนุญาตครีเอทีฟคอมมอนส์) ที่ให้สิทธิ์แก่ผู้อ่าน (ดูตัวอย่าง) และควรให้วิธีการรักษาความปลอดภัยหากจำเป็นสำหรับการใช้เนื้อหาของวารสาร
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