A Study of Tourist Texts Translation from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence 用功能对等理论研究旅游文本的翻译.docVIP

A Study of Tourist Texts Translation from the Perspective of Functional Equivalence 用功能对等理论研究旅游文本的翻译 Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to many people who have provided me with valuable advices and revisions through the difficult course of my undergraduate thesis. My deepest gratitude goes first to my supervisor, for his constant encouragement and guidance. He has helped me through all the stages of writing this thesis. Heartfelt thanks are also due to all my competent teachers in College of Foreign Languages at University. Their consistent and illuminating instructions are treasure in my whole life. Finally, my thanks would go to my beloved friends and family members for their loving considerations and great confidence in me through all these years. Only with your sincere support, can I reach the present success. Abstract [Abstract] Although China has developed in-bound tourism for years and accomplished great achievements, some English translations of scenic-spot introductions are still beyond satisfaction: even though the translations suffer no apparent grammatical mistakes, it is hard or even impossible for foreign tourists to understand. Because the foreign tourists mainly depend on the English scenic spot introductions to know relevant information, proper English scenic spot introductions are not only of great help to tourists, but also to the further development of Chinas tourism. Therefore, tourist texts translation has become an urgent issue which deserves a deep study to call for the translators’ attention and solution. The thesis introduces Nida and his functional equivalence theory, analyzes the characteristics as well as the functions of tourist texts, studies cultural problems in tourist text translation, and explores the features and requirements and criteria of tourist text translation. This thesis makes a tentative study on tourist text translation based on functional equivalence theory, and prescribes what strategies and meth