A Report On The Translation Of Blockchain Revolution In Education And Lifelong Learning Under The Guidance Of Skopos Theory

The report reviews how the author revises the first version of translation of Blockchain Revolution in Education and Lifelong Learning under the guidance of Skopos Theory and elaborates on the strategies used.The report starts with introducing Skopos Theory,including a brief introduction of the theory and its three rules(the Skopos Rule,the Coherence Rule and the Fidelity Rule,among which the Skopos Rule is the most important).The report goes on to introduce Blockchain Revolution in Education and Lifelong Learning.The source text is categorized as informative text.However,the translation task was assigned to the translator by a blockchain institution who stresses the vocative function of the target text as well.Besides the most prominent purpose of providing the latest information on blockchain applications,the translation also aims at attracting investors and influencing policy makers by emphasizing on the positive side of the technology.Then the report takes examples from the source text and analyzes the translation using the three rules of Skopos Theory.The report divides the Skopos Rule into informative and vocative functions,elaborates on the application of the Coherence Rule from the perspectives of lexical,syntactic and textual coherence,and studies the application of the Fidelity Rule from semantic and stylistic faithfulness.The report concludes that Skopos Theory contributes to solution of typical problems in the first version of translation of the blockchain report and can provide insights on the translation of the research report of other industries.