The Comparison and Contrast of Skopostheorie and Baker’s Equivalence Translation Approach

Equivalence can be said to be the central issue in translation although its different approaches have caused heated controversy.However,as early as the 1970s,the Skopostheorie emerged in Germany,and it seemed to challenge the equivalence theories.Although Nida and some linguistics raised some negative problems of this theory,it still rapidly became famous around the world,This article will mainly compare and analyse Skopostheorie and Baker’s translation equivalence approach.First,it will give a simple overview of these two approaches.Second,it will discuss the relevant strengths and weaknesses of these two approaches in relation to their usage.Finally,it will discuss combining these two approaches in the same translation.     

A Study of the translation of idioms in Yu Hua’s Novel Brothers from the Perspective of Eugene·Nida’s Funtional Equivalence Theory

Eugene A.Nida’s functional equivalence theory is regarded as one of the most useful criteria.In this thesis,the author will make a research on the translation of idioms in Yu Hua’s novel Brothers from the perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory,which examines whether the English version achieves the equivalence of response between the source language readers and the target language readers.     

Study on the Translation of Puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from the Perspective of the Functional Equivalence Theory

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a world-famous masterpiece in children’s literature.The adventure stories in the novel deeply attract the child readers in different countries in the world.The use of puns in the work adds to its aesthetic value.In China,many scholars have translated it.The research topic is the application of Nida’s theory of functional equivalence in the pun translation in children’s literature work Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the degree of equivalence in Wu Juntao’s translation.The person who does the research has read the original work and the translator Wu Juntao’s translation of this book,analyzed the translation of puns in the book,read the relevant journal articles on the theory of functional equivalence and thought about the academic views in them.On the basis of text reading,translation analysis and reference analysis,the following conclusion has been made:According to the basic points in the theory,in the work,Wu Juntao’s translation of the puns has basically achieved the equivalence between the original text and the target text in readers’responses,language style and language meaning.     

The Study of Semantic Functional Equivalence of Predicates in Xi Youji and Its English Version Journey to the West—From the Perspective of Transitivity Theory

Equivalence in translation was first put forward by Firth. It has been the nuclear topic of translation studies in western countries."Functional equivalence", Eugene Nida’s key notion of translation theories, advocated the receptor-oriented translation standard. Through the contrastive study between Xi Youji and its English version Journey to the West, the content focuses on the translation of the verbal predicates and aims at studying the application of transitivity theory into Chinese-English translation and finding out the improved translations of Chinese and English examples of different processes. Due to limited article, this paper only discusses three of six processes in the concrete context and provides new translations for the questioned ones. Finally, the last part summarizes that the functional equivalence can be achieved when verbs referring to process of action share the same semantic attribute with the Chinese originals, so the English version of Xi Youji should be further perfected according to transitivity theory.     

Functional Equivalence Theory and Its Limitations in Translation

Exploring the features and translation of movie titles within the framework of Nida’s functional equivalence theory, this paper mainly aims to discuss the limitations of this theory and in the end proposes some methods in producing good translations of movie titles.     

An Exploration of Functional Equivalence Theory in the Translation of Movie Titles

Exploring the features and translation of movie titles within the framework of Nida’s functional equivalence theory,this paper mainly aims to discuss the application and limitations of this theory and in the end proposes some methods in producing good translations of movie titles.     

A Study on the Chinese-English Translation of Tourist Materials Guided by Functional Equivalence Theory

A successful translation of Chinese tourist materials is of a vital importance to publicize and promote China. Based on Nida’s functional equivalence theory, the thesis discusses the characteristics of...     

On Application of Nida’s Translation Priorities

This paper analyzes Nida’s theory of translation,also his system of priorities.The paper uses examples to illustrate the application of Nida’s four priorities in the practice of English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation and concludes that we can apply the system to help the receptors of second language and source language to have the closest response.     

Translation of Medical English

The past several decades have seen tremendous advances in ESP translation.In the field of medicine,the perpetual expansion of science and technology necessitates unprecedented worldwide academic cooperation and communication.By combining the features of medical English and Eugene Nida’s translation theory of functional equivalence,the author proposed specific criteria for medical translation to help teachers of medical English to improve their teaching and translators to produce high quality translation.     

Functions and Benefits of SDL Translator’s Workbench 2007

Nowadays more and more translators are trying to use machine to help their translation work.Translator’s Workbench is a tool of machine translation.In this essay,I will explore functions and benefits of Translator’s workbench 2007 with the theory of MT and TM.     

A Commentary on News Translation

News language is formal,especially the high register vocabulary it employed to deliver the message unveiled by culturally and politically stamped style which challenges the translator a lot.Nida’s formal and dynamic equivalence theory,Bielsa and Bassnett news translation theories and other methods and strategies are introduced to cope with these challenges and get the message across without distortion.     

The Analysis of Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory

Eugene A. Nida is an influential translation theoretician with great research achievements. The functional equivalence theory which is the core of his translation theories lays a solid foundation for the modern translation. However, there also exist some limitations in it. It should be dialectically analyzed to find its contributions and limitations.     

A Discussion on Edwin Gentzler’s Attitude towards Eugene Nida’s Translation Theory

Eugene Nida was a linguist who developed the dynamic-equivalence translation theory.As a comparative literature and transla tion scholar from a younger generation,Edwin Gentzler examines the main points of Nida’s translation theory from a deconstructionist perspective and challenges Nida’s authority as a pioneer in the fields of translation theory.The paper analyzes Gentzler’s criticism against Nida’s work.     

The Equivalence to Advertising Translation

The common character of human being’s thought decides the sameness far beyond the difference between English and Chinese. It makes possible to transfer from source language into target language. Nida, a famous translation theorist of U.S.A., said translation is the closest natural equivalent to the source-language message. Therefore equivalence is important basic of translation. Generally speaking, the more translation equivalence is reached, the better quality the translation is. Translation equivalence ha...     

The Researchon English News Translation

With the development of the whole world,news has become an essential part in our daily life.Therefore,it is very necessary to do some research on news.In view of the distinctive features of news itself and cultural differences between the West and the East,the thesis tries to discuss that to convey an accurate translation Nida’s functional equivalence theory can be applied to compare the accuracy between the source language and the target language.A brief introduction of this theory is given at the beginning.The author puts more efforts to investigate how the theory is feasible to guide the news translation at lexical level in the next section.     

Comparison between“Dynamic Equivalence” and “Semantic and Communicative Translation”

This paper explores the similarities and differences between Eugene Nida’s dynamic equivalence and Peter Newmark’s semantic and communicative translation. And it points out the strengths and weaknesses in the two proponents’theories, enabling the translation learners to have a better understanding to the theories.     

The Analysis of Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory

Eugene A. Nida is an influential translation theoretician with great research achievements. The functional equivalence theory which is the core of his translation theories lays a solid foundation for t...     

From the Theory of Dynamic Equivalence to Analyse the Translation of The Nightinggale and the Rose by Lin Huiyin

This paper analyses one of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales The Nightinggale and the Rose translated by Lin Huiyin from the angle of Dynamic Equivalence theory.Equivalence can be functional equivalence,semantic equivalence,structure equivalence.First,it explains the theoretical meaning of Dynamic Equivalence put forward by Eugene A.Nida in 1964 year;Then,it is interpretation of the original text and the analysis of the translating version from the three aspects in syntactic structure equivalence including English hypotaxis and Chinese parataxis in discourse;rhetoric style equivalence inluding simile,personification and dynamic equivalence of translation strategy: domestica tion and foreignization.     

On Subtitle Translation of Sitcoms——A Case Study of The Big Bang Theory

As we all know that exquisite subtitle translation of foreign film and television series is the fatal elements for them to spread among Chinese audiences. This article is based on Eugene·Nida’s"the Functional Equivalence"principle with three char acteristics of sitcoms’subtitle to study the type, form and features of the Big Bang Theory, which lead to the conclusion of sitcom subtitle’s characteristics. It helps us to analyze its subtitle from six aspects. As the result, the author of the paper makes the conclusion of translation tactic about Big Bang Theory, which could help the subtitle translation of similar sitcoms.