A Report On The Translation Of The Companion To Museum Studies(Chapters 25-26)

The book A Companion to Museum Studies is a collection of academic papers on the interdisciplinary study of the development of museums,which expounds the development,commercial operation and social roles of museums in contemporary society from the perspectives of history,politics,cultural economics,etc.It provides reference for museums in China.This report selects Chapters 25-26 of A Companion to Museum Studies as its practice material.The text selected features formality,objectivity and precision.The report mainly analyses some cases in the translation project and discusses how to solve the problems from the perspectives of contextual cohesion,intertextuality and sequencing under the guidance of Verschueren’s Theory of Linguistic Adaptation in order to improve the accuracy and readability of the translation.