Study on the Translation Strategies for Financial Texts from the Perspective of Translation Shifts Theory

Yitong Wang

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Study on the Translation Strategies for Financial Texts from the Perspective of Translation Shifts Theory

Yitong Wang

Published in Science Innovation (Volume 11, Issue 1)

Received: 6 December 2022 Accepted: 11 January 2023 Published: 17 January 2023

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Abstract

In the economic exchanges and cooperation among countries, financial texts play an important role in transmitting information. In the post-epidemic era, countries have joined hands to fight the epidemic, and the pace of globalization has not only not slowed down, but accelerated the process of cooperation, as well as the economic exchanges between countries have become more and more frequent. In response to the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, more and more Chinese enterprises are gradually going global. Therefore, the demand for translation of financial texts is increasing day by day. In economic activities, it is very important to be able to understand and translate financial texts accurately. This paper studies the translation strategies of financial texts by selecting the World Bank's industry reports and using the Catford‘s Translation Shifts Theory as the guiding theory. A combination of citing theory, analyzing example sentences and describing the translation process is used to explore the hierarchical and category shifts that occur in the process of English-Chinese translation, so as to explain the guiding role of Catford‘s Translation Shifts Theory in the process of English-Chinese translation. It provides an in-depth verification of the important guiding role of translation transition theory for English-Chinese translation of financial texts, and provides some reference for translators of financial information-based texts.

Published in	Science Innovation (Volume 11, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.si.20231101.13
Page(s)	16-21
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Catford‘s Translation Shifts Theory, Translation Strategies for Financial Texts, Features of Financial Texts

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School of Foreign Language, Liaoning University of International Business and Economics, Dalian, China

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