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从语言结构顺应的角度看中国大学校名的英译 1. Adaptation Theory Affected by Darwins evolutionary epistemology, Belgian scholar Jef Verschueren, proposed Adaptation Theory(AT) in 1987. And in 1999, he further enriched and elaborated this theory in his newly published book Understanding Pragmatics marking the maturation of it. For Jef Verschueren, pragmatics serves as “a general cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on linguistic phenomena in relation to their usage in forms of behavior” (Jef Verschueren, 2000:7). In this sense, adaptation theory is a general pragmatic theory. 1.1 Three Properties of Language Variability -- the property of language which defines the range of possibilities from which choices can be made.(Jef Verschueren, 2000:59) Negotiability -- the property of language responsible for the fact that choices are not made mechnically or according to strict rules or fixed form-function relationship, but rather on the basis of highly flexible principles and strategies. Adaptability is the property of language which enables human beings to make negotiable linguistic choices from a variable range of possibilities in such a way as to approach points of satisfaction for communication needs. 1.2 Four Aspects of Adaptaion contextual correlates of adaptability(语境顺应关系） structual objects of adptability(语言结构顺应） dynamics of adaptability( 动态顺应） salience of the adaptation process(顺应过程中的意识凸显度） 2.从语言顺应角度看中国大学校名英译 Structural objects of adaptability take place at all possible levels of linguistic structure that involve variability of any kind from sound feature phoneme to discourse and beyond, or to any type of inter-level relationship. 2.1 Lexical Adaptation Specific to Chinese—English university name translation，lexical adaptation is mainly embodied in the number of words.In China,people are fond of dual numbers．Therefore，Chinese universities are usually named with characters of dual numbers, ranging from four to twelve. According to Chinese people’s aesthetic norm，university name in