| With the rapid development of economic globalization, more and more people pay much attention to the development of science and technology. Thus how to translate the technological news (TN) accurately and concisely to the laymen has been considered as a major task by Chinese translators of TN. For the sake of better translation of technological news (TN), the paper intends to study it from a new perspective, taking functionalist approaches as the theoretical basis.According to functionalism, any translation is purposeful. Skopostheorie is regarded as the prime theory guiding the translation process; the translator, as the direct receiver of the source language, should make some change to make the translated texts easily accepted by the target readers. In this paper, the author first introduces the definition and features of technological news, and then she analyzes TN translation under the guidance of functionalism. Finally, the author advocates some specific strategies for TN translation.The author draws conclusions as follows:first, it is a better choice to study TN translation from the perspective of functionalism. In terms of Skopotheorie, TN translating can be regarded as a purposeful activity. TN translating is also regarded as an interpersonal, communicative and intercultural activity in the theory of translational action. Second, in TN translating process, the translator can choose some strategies in order to make their works readable and popular. Translation methods such as literal translation, free translation, and adaptation are all useful for technological news translation.In this paper, the author has provided a new theoretical view to study technological news translation. In order to improve the quality of technological news translation, the author offers a suggestion that the translator should apply the functionalist theory in his technological news translating practice. |
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