A Study Of The C-E Translation Of A Guide To The Revolutionary Tourist Attractions In Changsha From The Perspective Of Skopos Theory

As a new kind of tourism, revolutionary tourism, with its unique charm, is attracting more and more tourists from home and abroad. The development of revolutionary tourism is conducive to China’s economic development. It also serves to publicize revolutionary spirit.Revolutionary tourism texts are informative and infectious according to the principle of "text typology" by Reiss, therefore the Skopos theory offers guidance for the translation of red tourism texts. Based on the "three laws" of the Skopos theory, this thesis has made a study on the translation of the revolutionary tourism text A Guide to the Revolutionary Tourist Attractions in Changsha. The thesis first has analyzed the contents and language features of the text, and then introduced the Skopos Theory and analyzed its guiding function in the translation of red tourism texts. On the basis of all these, the thesis has explored the translation methods for the translation of proper names, revolutionary-culture-loaded words, long sentences and poems in the source text. The result of the translation shows that, in the C-E translation of revolutionary tourism texts, the Skopos Theory works very well in helping the translator to select his translation methods and produce expected translation result.