A pragmatic analysis on the translations of Alice in wonderland and pygmalion

The present thesis is on the translation of implicatures and illocutionary act, as the main topics in pragmatics, which has not been much studied in the field of translation criticism yet. For this purpose, the English literature classic Alice in Wonderland and a famous play Pygmalion were selected. The two books were considered to be rich sources of implicatures taking account of the fact that one of them was play, which means it is based on dialogues and the other was a classic including plenty of conversations. In this study, almost 40 examples were examined within the framework of Speech Act Theory and Conversational Maxims and Implicature, combining these theories with the functionalist linguistic theories. The thesis discusses meaning in communication which might not always be stated explicitly. The importance of implicit meaning and awareness of implicatures and illocutionary act in translation is emphasized. Whether the implicatures are preserved or lost in the translation process, the important thing is that the function of the utterance in the source text is also the same in the target text.