Coherence through theme equivalence： With reference to text translation

Theme is the point of departure of a message, and it is a textual phenomenon. It can interpret the comprehension and production of texts. This paper first makes a thematic analysis of the English original text and the Chinese target text, and then makes a comparative study of them in terms of the textual properties. It is found that in reproduction of target text, theme equivalence can not only help to realize the coherence of the target text with the same effect on receptors but also can save translation efforts. It is unnecessary to change the theme-rheme arrangements of the original unless it is required due to the social and cultural differences between English and Chinese.

An Eco-translatological Perspective to Researching Publicity Texts Translation

The importance of an interdisciplinary investigation into the translation of publicity texts cannot be overestimated at a time when the role of international communication grows rapidly,which in turn pushes the development of globalization.Ecotranslatology takes the concept of"adaptation/selection"of Darwin’s Evolution Theory as its theoretical foundation,focusing on the integrity of the translation ecosystem,making a novel description and interpretation to the nature,process,standard,principles,methods of translation and translation phenomena from the perspective of Eco-translatology.Though the construct of the theory keeps expanding,there is still a lack of systematic discussion on translation activities with focus on the integrity and harmony in Eco-translatology.This study therefore aims to promote the need of researching publicity text translation from an Ecotranslatological perspective through the review of the existing literature in this field.

The E-C Translation Strategies of Politics Texts Exemplified by Annual Report to Congress:Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2012 (Chapter One to Four and Appendix One)

The source material,a report entitled Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2012( Chapter One to Four and Appendix One)(Annual Report for short in the following),was released by a governmental institute,the US Department of Defense,in the year of 2012,to the US Congress,presenting the military and security development in China all year around.The thesis is a study of the E-C translation strategies adopted in the process,based on the characteristics of political texts.

Press Conference for Issuing National Standard——Target Text Quality Requirements for Translation Services

On June 2nd,the press conference for issuing the national standard—Target Text Quality Requirements for Translation Services was held in Beijing,jointly hosted by China Association for Standardization (CAS),Translator Association of China (TAC),China Translation and Publishing Corporation (CTPC) and China Shipol Information Center.

On Translation of Classical Chinese Literary Texts

Chinese classical literature is precious treasure of the world literature. In order to transmit and carry forward it, translation is an effective and necessary way, especially as the development ofglobalization and China＇s economy. This paper mainly discusses the history, difficulties, ways and skills on translation of classical Chinese literary texts in this paper.

On Six Common Strategies of Advertisement Translation

Advertisement is a kind of comprehensive art. Translators of advertisements are expected to have a good command of both English and Chinese so as to Obtain wonderful, accurate, vivid, concise, distinct and appealing advertisements. This paper probes into six common strategies of advertisement translation for the detail study.

Notes on the Semantic Clash Caused by Individual Background, a Survey on Translation Materials in Qing Dynasty

Influenced by translator＇s individual background, semantic clash is inevitable during the process of code-switching from source language to target language. This re-correspondence in semantic level has been well-shown not only in the translation of literature works, but in those of dictionary and glossary translations as well. Semantic clash, generally, is based on two main factors, one is the inherent difference between languages lying in typology features, the other is the social and culture diversity factors lying in the translator＇s personal background. According to actual translation works, social and culture factors of individual background take the dominant position unconsciously over other features in the process of code-switching. The present paper, branches the latter factor into certain categories, by analyzing bilingual dictionaries and glossaries cases in the 18th century, Qing Dynasty, and indicates that the conceptual lagging, religion beliefs, living environment and political stand embedded in individual background will somehow result in semantic clash, which will lead the relevant research to pay more attention on cross-cultural literature translation.

University Profile Translation Based on Skopos Theory

University profile translation belongs to publicity translation and is different from other translations in style.Its main functions are informative and vocative.Skopos theory is one of most important theories in German functionalist approaches.According to the theory,translation is an action with a certain Skopos.The purpose decides the translating process.Therefore,this paper is aimed to explore the translation of Chinese university profiles from the Skopos theory from the angle of translational skopos and source text analyzing.By exemplification and comparison between the source texts and translated texts,it is concluded in the paper that adaption is available in translation strategy-selecting in order to achieve its informative and vocative function.

The Comparative Study of Two Translated Texts on Huangdirent Translating Styles o'n s Internal Classics——Simple Analysis on the Diffe Culture-Specific Lexicon, Figure of Speech and Four-Chinese-Character Structures

Huangdi's Internal Classics(Neijin) is one of the most important ancient medical classics, which plays far-reaching influence in medical field. More and more domestic and overseas scholars published their translated texts on Neijing. Due to the diversity of editions and different understanding, the translating styles and contents are widely different. This study will focus on the different translating styles on culture-specific lexicon、figure of speech and four-Chinese-character structures in Neijin.

Functionalist Approaches to Translation of Instruction Manuals

To translate the instruction manuals not only demands the translators offer necessary and complete information of the products,but also take into consideration the typology of the instruction manuals and regard translation process as an interpersonal action.Based upon the functionalist approaches,this paper is dealing with the specific translation process of instruction manuals.Through analyzing the application of the text typology and translating as interpersonal action into translation,it is found that functionalist approaches are of great guidance to the instruction manual-translating.This offers a new perspective of the translation of instruction manuals.