The Study of China’s International Publicity Translation from the Perspective of Functionalism: A Case Study of the 2022 Report on the Work of the Government

Abstract

With the increasing complexity of the international situation, more and more scholars have begun to study political discourses. Leaders of various countries make their speeches to show their positions and convey their ideas for the purpose of influencing the audience. Therefore, a comprehensive and detailed analysis of their reports is particularly important. In the 1970s, Eugene A. Nida put forward the dynamic equivalence, which provided a new theoretical basis for discourse analysis, and the subsequently developed functionalism translation theory also opened up a new way for the analysis of political discourses. Firstly, this thesis selects the report on the work of the government as the authoritative corpus sample, which is attractive and of great research value. Secondly, the thesis analyzes the report on the Work of the Government from the perspective of functionalism translation theory, and explores the language characteristics of the report on the Work of the Government through the study of the fidelity principle, politics principle, culture principle and acceptability principle.