Analysis On The English Translation Of Report On The Work Of The Government Based On The Skopos Theory

The thesis introduces the content of the Skopos, analyzes the goal, text type and linguistic features of the Report on the Work of the Government (the Report) and elaborates on the strategies used in translating the Report.The thesis starts with introducing the Skopos Theory, including a brief introduction of the people who came up with and developed the theory, the history of the theory from its first appearance to completion, and its three rules (the Skopos Rule, the Coherence Rule and the Fidelity Rule, among which the Skopos Rule is the most important).The thesis goes on to give some information of the Report. The Report is categorized as expressive and vocative text, which puts emphasis on the conveying of the content. The English version of the Report aims at promoting China’s policies. The goal of the translation is making readers from foreign countries to understand the policies, but with a large amount of its content and language difficult for those readers to digest, it becomes more important to look at the translation strategies.Then the thesis takes examples from the Report and analyzes the translation using the three rules of the Skopos Theory. The thesis focuses on the acceptability of the language and culture when analyzing the application of the Skopos Rule, and starts with the differences between Chinese and English to elaborate on the application of the Coherence Rule. The analysis of the application of the Fidelity Rule is mainly focused at lexical and rhetorical level.The thesis proves that adaptable strategies are used when translating the Report, which is worth our appreciation.