ON C-E TRANSLATION OF THE 2011 GOVERNMENT WORK REPORT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FUNCTIONALISM

Government Work Report is a particular type of text with both oral and written linguistic characteristics,having the special features of political texts.Recently scholars at home have comparatively less researches in this line.Among the limited articles available,it is noted that there is an absence of theoretical basis,which mainly analyze some typical translation problems such as Mechanization and Chinese Translation and then put forward some cooresponding strategies of translation.This paper intends to analyze the English translation of the 2011 Government Work Report from the perspective of functionalism with the analysis of its stylistic word and sentence features and to put forward some theoretical guidence in the translation of Government Work Report and some ideal translation principle and strategies to improve its translation level and to promote better exchange.