Firstly, the paper analyses the previous studies on equipment instructions and some comments on previous studies are made. Then, the paper discusses the discourse linguistic features of English electrical equipment instructions through case analyses. Based on the discourse linguistic features, the paper analyzes the feasibility of Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory in the E-C Translation of Electrical Equipment Instructions and how to achieve equivalence on discourse level under the direction of functional equivalence theory. Finally, some translating methods are proposed to achieve equivalence on discourse level in light of functional equivalence theory. For equivalence on discourse level, such methods as substitution, repetition and inversion etc. are adopted to achieve cohesion and coherence.

Liu Ping. A Study on the E-C Translation of Electrical Equipment Instructions on Discourse Level: A Functional Equivalence Perspective. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 3: 166-173. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070326.

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