A Practice Report On The E-C Translation Of Mark Twain's Cat:Investment Experience,Categorical Thinking,and Stock Selection From The Perspective Of Functionalist Approaches To Translation

In the era of economic globalization,more and more people are paying attention to economic and trade information,as well as the financial market.Exchanges among countries around the world are becoming increasingly frequent.As a result,economic and trade English has become increasingly significant.Business English is derived from general English and shares the same linguistic characteristics with general English.However,it is especially used in the fields of business,trade,finance,etc.It integrates economic knowledge and linguistic knowledge,which is special and professional.As part of the English texts of economics and trade,academic papers on economics and trade are more professional and the language is more formal.Mark Twain's Cat: Investment Experience,Categorical Thinking,and Stock Selection is selected as a material to translate and analyze.The text belongs to the field of economic and trade,which aims to objectively disseminate economic information and explain economic principles,so its translation should be concise and rigorous.The most important thing is that the translator should pursue the consistency of readers' response in the target language and the source language,which is in line with the requirements of Functionalist Approaches to Translation.Therefore,Functionalist Approaches to Translation is used as a guide.This practice report is an analysis and summary of the process and completion of the translation task.There are mainly five parts in the report: task overview,translation process,translation theory,case analysis,and practice summary.The practice report mainly analyzes and discusses the translation techniques and methods of economic and trade academic papers from three aspects: vocabulary,syntax and discourse,so as to solve common problems in economic and trade English translation.