This paper, inspired by Wang Guowei s Sense of Propriety and Zong Baihua s idea of hierarchy, tries to confirm that the hierarchy of the conception of Yi Jin——artistic vision should include three aspects: the inseparability of mood and circumstance, the implied meanings, and the approach to Tao, with the first as the base, the second as the intermediate level and the third as the highest.

It consists of three main aesthetic constituents, namely, images, emotions and“images beyond images”.

The paper discusses its definition, translation, pragmatic features, and ways of rhetorical question translation and holds that the rhetorical question is not only a special question, but also an illocutionary act with many illocutionary indirect forces.

Speech act includes locutionary act,illocutionary act and perlocutionary act.

They tend to render directly what is their own way of speaking into the target language,causing a misunderstanding of illocutionary act in the hearer and a loss of illocutionary force,as a result,leading to pragmatic failure.

This paper defines cross-cultural pragmatic failure as cross-culturally communicational breakdown caused by different illocutionary forces mapped to the same lexically-grammatically correct utterance by Addresser and Addressee.

Drawing on John Searle s Speech Act Theory,this article explores performances and functions of illocutionary force in discourse by conducting an in-depth discourse analysis of the Chinese classic drama Sunrise by Caoyu.