Compensation Strategies In Translating Informative Text

Sam Hunter is the professor of Princeton University and famous art historian. His well-known book Modern Art mainly surveys the genesis, development, and culmination of modern European/American painting, sculpture, architecture, and conceptual art—from Post-Impressionism through the most recent developments in the 1990s. It avoids the typical encyclopedic approach of surveys in favor of examining selected but highly representative works in greater depth and from an enlarged spectrum of critical discourse.Based on Newmark’s text typology theory, this paper deals with the characteristics, translating principles as well as translation compensation methods of informative texts through an analysis of the excerpts in Modern Art. This paper not only concludes the four types of compensation strategies, but also describes the translating comprehension encountered during the process.