工作报告的翻译DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES.doc

DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES A STUDY ON THE TRANSLATION STRATEGIES OF POLITICAL VOCABULARY WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS IN GOVERNMENT WORK REPORTS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED ENGLISH IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS BY LIU TINGTING CLASS: 2 GRADE: 2009 ADVISER: PAN ZHIDAN APRIL OF 2013 ABSTRACT The annual Government Work Report delivered to the People’s Congress, reviewing the past situation and outlining the future policies, plans for politics, economy, people’s life etc. Certainly, GWR presents authoritative information on the situation in China and the relative policies of Chinese Government. However, the current translation for GWR is far from being satisfactory. Thus, the author of this thesis attempts to conduct a comprehensive study on the GWR translation and explore the translation strategies for political expressions. The study on the translation strategies on the political vocabulary with Chinese characteristics is based on the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Government Work Reports. To begin with, the thesis will introduce the Government Work Reports and stress the importance of the translation strategies in the GWR. Then, the analysis on the the Chinese characteristics of GWR at lexical, syntactic, and contextual level will be illustrated. Next, based on the extralinguistic study, language style and cultural perspectives in English and Chinese will be compared. In accordance with the analysis above, translation strategies, such as amplification and omission, will be explored to improve the accuracy and readability of GWR translation. Through the translation of GWR, China will be better understood by the outside world. Thus, the relative translation methods will be concluded in this thesis so as to translate other Chinese political articles. Key Words: GWR, Translation Strategies, Chinese