Business Translation Ethics from the Angle of Skopos Theory
Supanan Prommak
Abstract:Translation is known to significantly contribute to business success, particularly in today's international business context. Many business translation works are produced to achieve target-side purposes, as opposed to the equivalence between a source text (ST) and a target text (TT). Translation guided by the TT's intended functions is claimed to fall under Vermeer's (1978) skopos theory that has been attracting active interest from scholars in translation studies. However, with great priority being assigned t… Show more
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