Author(s)

Kexin Shi ¹, Xiuwen Li ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of Foreign Languages, Changchun University of Technology, Beiyuanda Street, Fenjin Town, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China

Corresponding Author

Xiuwen Li

ABSTRACT

As an excellent vehicle for dissemination of information, news has a huge impact on the way people live, promoting cultural exchange and mutual understanding to a large extent. Considering that, it means a lot for us to make a good job of news translation in an unbiased, objective and accurate way. Compared with traditional theories of translation laying great stress on equivalence, the skopos theory proposed by the German functionalism is perceived as a major breakthrough, which provides rock solid support for the translation of practical types of writing like news. The paper first introduces the skopos theory, then focuses on linguistic features of news English, and finally cites a few specific examples to work out some appropriate translation strategies for news English under the guidance of skopos theory, thus helping news translators gain a good deal of enlightenment.

KEYWORDS

Skopos theory, skopos rule, news English, translation strategies, linguistic features

CITE THIS PAPER

Kexin Shi, Xiuwen Li, A Study on Translation Strategies of News English from the Perspective of Skopos Theory. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 60-69. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060509.

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