本研究旨在探討《頑童流浪記》四本中譯作品中，譯者如何處理敘事者與人物所使用之語力轉述動詞，並透過語用分析討論其話語效力。分析結果顯示，譯者在翻譯語力轉述動詞時，普遍直譯這類轉述動詞，這樣的譯法容易減弱轉述動詞之語力，另一種方式則是將具有語力之轉述動詞譯成常用之中性轉述動詞「說」，而導致原本轉述動詞之語力降低，這些翻譯手法均會造成譯文讀者在詮釋人物話語行為之動機與意圖上的困難。較為成功的譯法是使用副詞或副詞子句來強化譯文語力及語境的詮釋。本文建議，譯者可透過語用分析探討言談語境中所欲傳達的隱含意義，並從語用角度來詮釋敘事者或人物使用特定轉述動詞之目的，以利在譯文中展現敘事者與說話者的語力。

The present paper aims to probe into how the speech acts performed with illocutionary reporting verbs are dealt with in four Chinese translations of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and how effective the illocutionary force is delivered when the narrator’s and the characters’speech acts are represented. It is noted that when translating the illocutionary verbs, the translators tend to produce variations in their translations. The most prevalent practice is to translate them literally,which results in weakening the illocutionary forces. The other way is to decrease their illocutionary forces by rendering them into neutral reporting verbs such as shuo (“say” in Chinese). These renderings may hinder the target reader from interpreting the motives of speech acts performed by the narrator or the characters. More successful translations are found in adding adverbs or adverbial phrases to intensify particular illocutionary forces. We suggest that pragmatic contrastive analysis of illocutionary verbs is necessary in translation analysis in that it helps the translator attend to the speech acts performed in particular contexts and interpret the illocutionary component encoded in the reporting verbs with a purpose to enhance or weaken the illocutionary forces.