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On Tourist Text Translation from the Perspective of Skopos Theory 姓 名 郑义 学 院 文法学院 专 业 外国语言学及应用语言学 学 号 2012211051 On Tourist Text Translation from the Perspective of Skopos Theory Abstract: In recent years, Chinese long history and unique culture of five thousand years have attracted people’s attention in English speaking countries. To carry forward Chinese culture and help people know it completely and exactly, the translation of tourist texts plays a role as a bridge to exchange and promote cultures. The skopos theory provides a new way for translation research. It points out a direction for tourist text translation and offers a theoretical support for translators. This article will analyze tourist text translation in the light of skopos theory and discuss translation strategies to realize the texts functions. Key words: tourist translation; skopos theory; translation strategies 1 Introduction With the rapid economic development of the whole world, tourism has gradually gained important position in the business trading and become the industry with strong competitiveness and stable growth. As the country which owns the biggest tourist resources, China devotes itself to exploring and developing tourism and attempts to make it become pillar industry of our country. However, tourism cannot get long and everlasting development without translation activities. Researches on tourism text translation have got great achievement, many rules about tourism text translation have been come up with which are proved to be feasible and useful. Nevertheless, many researches lack a systematic and theoretical support. This thesis will discuss the same topic from a new angle. Skopos Theory, put forward by a German translation theorist Hans J. Vermeer, will be combined with the study on tourism text translation. It claims that translation strategy should depend on the function and objective of translati