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Chapter 1 Instructional theories and original text 

This chapter presents the understanding of the original text in the background of original text, categorizes instructional theories of this translation practice and interprets them on the basis of textual and lingual analysis. It  is  widely  agreed  that  translation  and  translation  studies  have  been  never  so integrated  and  systematic  in  China  since  the  past  two  or  three  decades.  Today translation in China has become a more prolific, transparent, professional and honored activity  than  ever  before  and  as  a  result  of  it,  translation  is  taught  and  studied  in colleges  and  universities  as  an  academic  subject.  Translation  has  become  a  source  of loaning  knowledge  (Halliday,  2001)  and  therefore  are  given  importance  at  the etymological,  phrasal  and  even  syntax  levels  (Hoey,  2001)  and  we  have  a  very developed theory on aspects of syntax ( Halliday, 1993).  I literally agree with Haliday’s idea that for a linguist translation is how things are especially  the  interrelation  between  the  text  and  the  translation  and  the  process  of translation.  For  a  translator  translation  theory  is  all  about  how  things  out  to  be  and therefore  they  give  more  emphasis  on  the  output  of  the  translation  instead  on  the process (Halliday, 2001).  

1.1 Introduction to translation theories 
Translation theory has a long history but academically it came into being in 1983 as  a  separate  entry  according  to  international  bibliography  of  Modern  Language Association. One of the most famous theories in translation history is formal equivalence and dynamic  equivalence  theory  (renamed  as  functional  equivalence  in  1969)  founded  by Eugene A. Nida in his book which named Toward a Science of Translating.  Scholar Peter who lived in the second half of 20th century, claimed that the main problem  of  translating  a  text  was  “whether  to  translate  literally  of  freely”.  Later,  the American scholar, Eugene A. Nida (1959-1998) stated that translation itself was a kind of “science” and defined the translation concept as: Translating  consists  in  reproducing  in  the  receptor  language  the  closest  natural equivalent  of  the  source-language  message,  first  in  terms  of  meaning  and  secondly  in terms  of  style.  But  this  relatively  simple  statement  requires  careful  evaluation  of several  seemingly  contradictory  elements.  During  thi本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。