A Study Of Chinese-English Translation Of UWP In Northwestern China

As higher education in China become more and more international, networked and informative, many a university is willing to strengthen external publicity and seek international exchange and cooperation. As a result, universities put their English university profiles on the internet in succession, most of which are directly translated from their Chinese versions. As an informative profile, the university profile plays a significant role in improving its reputation. However, due to linguistic and cultural differences between Chinese and English, there are good and bad C-E translations, thus preventing the translated texts from fulfilling their intended functions and even spoiling the image of universities.Based on functionalist approach, especially Katharina Reiss’s text typology and Hans J. Vermeer’s Skopostheorie, the thesis regards10outstanding foreign universities as parallel texts. These universities selected by the author are highest ranked ones in England and America so the findings and results are persuasive to a certain degree. After analyzing the common errors in English university profiles in northwestern China, the thesis classifies the errors in C-E webpage profiles into different aspects—pragmatic, cultural, linguistic and text-specific at a macro level. At the micro level, problems include improper information processing, lexical redundancy, Chinglish and the like. Considering the abovementioned problems, the author analyzes and gives corresponding suggested versions.The thesis offers some suggestions to the C-E translation of UWP from the perspective of functionalist approach in the hope of improving translation quality and providing reference for the similar texts.