THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF BUSINESS TRANSLATION

Abstract

Global business is a reality and it is expanding. The economic benefits of a global economy do not come without their challenges, however, and businesses must deal with the translation of business and legal documents into numerous target languages. These translations entail a number of critical elements that may not be found in many other translation categories.Translators who work on business documents must not only have native-level fluency in the languages in which they work, but understand the legal and field-specific terminology used in the documents and comprehend the cultural and legal systems involved.Most translation done today is professional, specialised translation. The purpose of this article is to analyse specialised business translation, summarising the theoretical approaches applicable in the field (that is the functional approaches) and identifying translation problems posed by the translation of business texts.