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PAGE PAGE 13 Strategies in Guide-interpreting from Functionalist Perspective 1. Introduction Nowadays, tourism industry is flourishing, thus creating the need for guide-interpreting. Cultural differences, however, make the intercultural communicative barriers inevitable in guide-interpreting, which, accordingly, calls for an efficient translation theory and interpreting strategy to overcome the intercultural communicative barriers. This thesis aims to explore how to overcome intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting from a functionalist approach in the hope of finding a workable guiding theory for overcoming intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting and suggesting some feasible interpreting strategies for overcoming those barriers and elaborating the application area of functionalism. This thesis starts from the introduction of Skopostheorie in functionalism. Then, based on the discussion on the formation of intercultural communicative barriers and Skopostheorie, this thesis presents comparative analysis of cases of overcoming intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting and suggests some interpreting strategies for overcoming such barriers as barriers of culture-specific expressions, barriers of imagery confrontations and barriers of discourse patterns, which are the linguistic forms of intercultural communicative barriers. Hence, the author believes that functionalism may play a unique role in overcoming intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting. 2 A review of functionalist approaches to translation 2.1 The development of the theory The functionalist translation theory came into being in 1970s in Germany. Generally speaking, the development of modern functionalism in translation studies has gone through three stages: first is Katharina Reiss and her functionalist translation criticism; second is Hans Vermeers Skopostheorie and its extensions; third is Nord’s revision of Skop