Staff & Student Area

This course introduces the fundamental issues, techniques and professional practices relating to Chinese to English/English to Chinese financial translation for specific readers and purposes, with particular focus on the discoursal and stylistic features of a variety of financial genres, including news and commentaries, annual reports, prospectuses, corporate announcements, fund reports, and credit agreements. It also examines advanced bilingual writing and post-editing skills, in addition to pragmatic translation theories and principles, pertinent to the production of sophisticated financial texts. Critical textual analysis and practical translation exercises are designed to sharpen students’ bilingual and bicultural sensitivity, mastery of key financial concepts and terminology, understanding of basic market operations, and overall translation competence and knowledge base. There will also be a brief introduction to background research references and skills, as well as state-of-the-art computer-aided translation (CAT) tools, including electronic dictionaries, concordancers, translation memory, and terminology databases, that are useful for modern-day translation professionals.

Assessment: 100% coursework