化差异引起的商务英语翻译中的不对等性-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

i i ii ii Master’s Degree Thesis On Cultural-specific Non-Equivalence In Business English Translation Major: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Business Orientated) Author: LI Jiao Supervisor: Associate Professor FU Yanjun Jilin University of Finance Economics April, 2010 On Cultural-specific Non-Equivalence In Business English Translation By LI Jiao Under the Supervision of Associate Professor FU Yanjun A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the School of Foreign Languages Jilin University of Finance Economics April, 2010 Abstract As the development of economy tends to integrate and globalize, the need of cross-cultural communication is increasing at a fast speed. More and more people are learning foreign languages and reading books about other cultures to be able to conduct global communication well. Meanwhile, various books about multiple aspects of literature, history, education, business, and politics are translated to enhance people?s understanding and speed up the process of communication. However, as language, culture and translation are very closely tied to one another, translators meet many challenges arising from culture differences. Sometimes, they just can?t find the corresponding words in the target languages and they are missing or overlapping in the culture. To avoid culture shock, translation mistakes and misunderstandings, linguists and transition scholars have put forward various cultural translation strategies. Among them the theory of translation equivalence has attracted much attention and becomes a very influential approach because of its special communicative perspective. In recent years, as China stands out as a powerful economic country and is attracting more foreign investments, international business gains its importance and attention. Large volumes of English business books are translated into Chinese and many more books are published to teach people how to do busines