Abstract

With the rapid development of Chinese tourism, Chinese-English introduction texts in scenic spots in China has become particularly important nowadays. This paper analyses the application of Skopostheorie to the C-E translation of tourist introduction texts and the problems in the C-E translation, with an aim to find proper translation strategies to improve the translation quality.

 Key Words: introduction texts in scenic spots; translation quality; skopostheorie; translation strategy 

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1 Introduction1 

1.1 Necessity for Chinese-English Introduction Texts1

1.2 Current Situation and Difficulty for C-E Introduction Texts1

1.3 Intention of this paper.2

2 Theoretical Review3

2.1 Development of Functionalist Theory3

2.2 Skopostheorie.3

3 Background Information4

3.1 Object of the Study.4

3.2 Research Method5

3.3 Collection of the C-E Translation Samples5

3.4 Structure.5 

4 The Application of Skopos Theory to the C-E Translation of Scenic Spots Introduction Texts 5

4.1 Omission6

4.2 Blending and Division.8

4.3 Analogy.10

4.4 Amplification11

5 Conclusions.12 

References13