A Report On Translation Of Haiyang Npp Purchase Contract

Translation is one of the earliest human practices in terms of cultural communication.Likewise, the translation of business contracts becomes more and more important duringChina’s making efforts to melting into the world. Business contract translation, as a branch ofpragmatic translation, has attracted so many scholars’ eyes that they have studied it fromdifferent aspects and with different theories: from the perspective of stylistics, from the pointof systematic functional grammar, or from the view of functional equivalence theory. Theyhave, according to their studies, come up with some useful translation methods, principles aswell as strategies for the reference of the later generations. However, the current situation ofbusiness contract translation, on the other hand, isn’t satisfying and could not meet people’sdemands. The characteristics of business contract and the unique rules in translating thecontract have not been fully understood. In addition, the translation practice of businesscontract also have numbers of problems, such as inaccurate or unprofessional in choosingwords used, mistakes in translating, etc. In the contemporary western translation theories, thearising of German functional translation theory has supplied a new angle in guiding businesscontract translation practice. The writer chooses the purchase contract translated by herself asthe basic researching object. From the perspective of the Skopos translation theory, this thesistries to give a complete analysis of the words, sentences and stylistic features, summarize thecharacteristics of business contract and finally provide useful translation methods andstrategies in translating business contract in virtue of the translating experience of the writerherself.