On The C-E Translation Of Police Text From The Perspective Of Communicative Context Adaptation

English for police is a branch of ESP or English for Specific Purposes.Previous research about English for police has mainly focused on how to improve teaching practice and textbooks,with a few touching upon linguistic or cross-cultural aspects.The former studies of C-E police text translation were mostly about public signs and police terminology,focusing upon semantic equivalence.The concern of pragmatic attributes and dynamic contextual correlates throughout the process of translating police text is where the research gap exists.Based on Verschueren's Adaptation Theory,this dissertation,from the perspective of communicative context adaptation,exemplifies the problems of C-E translations collected mainly from recently published English textbooks for police,analyzes the causes,explores and concludes the approaches to C-E translation of police texts.The data analysis reveals that there exist mistranslations which are not pragmatically equivalent to the socio-cultural,cognitive,emotive,temporal and spatial contextual correlates in the target language world.Drawing from the case studies,this dissertation argues that the reason of mistranslations is due to ignorance of the fact that translation is subject to the communicative variables of the social,mental and physical world.The dissertation concludes by suggesting C-E translation methods for police text:addition,omission,liberal translation,and substitutive approach,which enable translators to make the best linguistic choices for satisfied communicative needs.From the pragmatic perspective,this dissertation presents a new adaptation-based approach to C-E translation of police texts.