An Overview of German’s Functionalist Skopos Theory of Translation Cognition

Abstract

Functionalist Skopos Theory of translation plays a vital role in the development of translation theory history. Under the background of globalization, the international exchange and cooperation needs the functional bridge of translation to better communicate among countries. This paper generally describes the literature review, original and developing tendency, definition key rules of the Functionalist Skopos Theory of Translation, to guide the translators and English learner for high quality translation products and rouse more attention on the translation theory development.