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A Study Of Translation Of News On Government’s Portals From The Perspective Of Skopos Theory

Posted on:2016-01-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B HongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330476952279Subject:English translation
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This translation report focuses on the Chinese to English trans-editing of Ningbo government website news. The purpose of the report is to summarize and give a detail description of the characteristics of the source texts, the problems existing in the translation process and relevant solutions. It gives an overall and systematic analysis of the selected source texts at lexical, syntactic and textual levels under the guidance of Hans J. Vermeer’s skopos theory. Furthermore, some translation methods used during the translation process are also discussed. This may provide some valuable references for translation practice of government website news.The report describes the translation task, theoretical foundation, features of the source texts, case analysis and conclusion respectively. The first part introduces the background of the source texts including an overview of the e-government construction of Ningbo Municipal Government, themes of the source texts, significance of government’s portals construction and translation process. The second part of this report shows the previous studies on the English versions of governmental websites and then introduces the skopos theory and its three relevant rules: the skopos rule, the coherence rule and the fidelity rule. In the third part, features of the source texts are analyzed at the lexical level, syntactic level and textual level with some examples exemplified. In case analysis, the essence of this report, skopos-based methods of news translation are presented, namely, addition, deletion, restructuring and generalization, and then it is summed up that trans-editing can be an applicable method in government website news translation. The last part includes the major findings, limitations and suggestions for future studies and practice.
Keywords/Search Tags:government website news translation, skopos theory, translation methods
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