EIREducational Innovation Research3029-18443029-1852WHIOCE PUBLISHING PTE. LTD.10.18063/EIR.v3i6.683ArticleA Study on the Chinese Translations of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns from the Perspective of Pragmatic Differenceshttps://artdesignp.com/journal/EIR/3/6/10.18063/EIR.v3i6.683SunQianwen2025362025-07-26This study takes the two Chinese translations of Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns as its corpus, and based on Wang Jianguo’s (2014) pragmatic translation findings, systematically examines the pragmatic differences between English and Chinese through a comparative analysis. The findings reveal a significant tendency toward “process” in the translation process from English into Chinese—that is, translators generally adopt the N-1 strategy to accommodate Chinese pragmatic conventions. Specifically, at the lexical, syntactic, and aesthetic levels, abstract concepts or result-oriented expressions in English are frequently transformed into more concrete or process-oriented renderings in Chinese.A Thousand Splendid Suns,English-Chinese pragmatic differences,process orientation,comparative analysis

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