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ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 599-603, May 2016 DOI: /10.17507/jltr.0703.23 Lexical Ways of Expressing Interpersonal Meaning and Translation Strategy Xiufang Xia Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China Abstract—In translation, the study of meaning is the key factor. About the unsatisfying translation version, usually the interpersonal meaning is not transferred probably. This paper first explored the difference usages to express mood and modality in English and Chinese, and then it studies mainly the lexical ways of expressing interpersonal meaning and translation strategy between English and Chinese. On the basis of this comparison, the paper tries to summarize the strategies in translation to use lexical ways to express interpersonal meaning. Index Terms—interpersonal meaning, translation, lexical I. INTRODUCTION Language is a tool, but it has the special characteristics compared with other ordinary tools. Language is not created by man deliberately. It is a social and historical development, so it entails a very complicated series of human activities but it is not a finite system. Through the study of linguistics, many of the studies deal with the field of meaning, but the complexity of language made this field very hard to give an explanation. Because communication between people or groups or nations or other social organizations becomes more and more important, the need to study meaning of language becomes even more pressing. The study of meaning concerns many fields, so considering just one field in the study of meaning is not enough. Philosophy, psychology and linguistics all claim a deep interest in the stu