Cooperative Principle And The Acceptability Of Target Readers Report On The Translation Of Reading Style: Interacting The Chinese Way

Cooperative Principle plays a key role in translation work. In Reading Style:Interacting the Chinese Way is a cultural text, whose aim is to introduce some reading styles of Chinese people to let foreigners have a full understanding about Chinese language and culture. Therefore, it is important to make the target readers have the same feelings and experience as original readers to the greatest extent, complete the interaction between the original readers and target readers.This source text can be divided into three main contents: greetings, reading calligraphy and literary style. For the greetings in this source text, the author mainly uses action descriptions that cover expressions of the role, and shows the psychological status of the character. Translators should express awkwardness of the situation when the the strangers meet each other for the first time. The calligraphy may seem a little difficult for foreigners, the author uses many Chinese proverbs and common expressions which make foreigners feel confused. Translators may pay more attention to the translation of some professional words and phases, and do preparations before the task. And for the literary style in the source text, because of the diversity and complexity of literary work, translators should adopt free translation instead of literal translation, consider the acceptability of the readers, and express the emotion and feeling of the author.Cooperative Principle can achieve the pragmatic equivalence between the source and target language in practice. Of course, in order to achieve a perfect translation work, translators need to adopt more translation strategies to express the information of the source text and meet the need of target readers.