The present article reports a study carried out to investigate whether or not awareness of functional translation theories has any impact on the translation quality of translator trainees. 2oo Iranian undergraduate students took part in this study. They were divided into four groups -two- experimental and two control groups. After homogenizing the participants by a TOEFL test, a translation pre...

Classical Chinese poetry, an important part of Chinese culture, has always been a great task for translators, home and abroad. It is the foreign translators who, in the early 20 century, first translated the classical Chinese poetry into English. The Chinese scholars began to do the translation in the seventies of the 20 century. From the existent translations, foreign or Chinese, we can find t...

International trade between nations is expanding as a result of the development economic globalization. Advertising type appealing text that plays an important role in promoting products, attracting consumers, and establishing brand image. Among large number transnational corporations, English-to-Chinese translation advertising Apple Inc. has distinctive characteristics, “Apple-style Chinese” p...

Within translation studies, functionalist translations and even more specifically, guided by Skopos theory are very much purposeful activities. applied to Bible translation, however, is sometimes met with resistance practitioners who believe that betrays too of the source text. This article began outlining additional notion loyalty as introduced Christiane Nord. Even theory, many continue fear ...