Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-3 | Issue-08 | 934-938
Review Article
Analyses on Granny Liu’s Dialogues in Light of Relevance Theory
Hongping Chen, Xiaowan Lu
Published : Aug. 30, 2018
Abstract
As one of Chinese four great classic novels, A Dream of Red Mansions,
which is considered as the encyclopedia of feudal society, is of great value to be studied.
Up to now, most researches mainly focus on the translation, cultural and pragmatic
fields. When it comes to the investigation on the dialogue in this works, most researches
just center on the leading roles in the novel. Whereas, attention paid to the subordinate
figures such as Granny Liu. Taking Granny Liu’s typical dialogues extracted from the
English version of A Dream of Red Mansions translated by famous translator Yang
Hsien-yi as corpus, this thesis launched an exploration on how the subordinate figures
Granny Liu carried out communication in the three aspects of RT respectively including
the ostensive-reference process, context and cognitive environments, and the optimal
relevance. Surely, this analysis can exert favorable influence on readers to evaluate
Granny Liu more comprehensively and objectively, and also nudges readers to
appreciate the exquisite and superb artistic charm of this novel and digest the writer’s
creation intension. Meanwhile, this analysis is of substantial benefit to expand the
research objective and field about Relevance Theory.