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Peter Newmark is Professor of Translation theories Peter Newmark is professor of Translation at the University of Surrey. He has translated books and articles and published extensively on translation. He has made an important contribution to a more satisfactory understanding of the real nature of translation. Professor Peter Newmark’s “major contribution is in a detailed treatment of semantic vs. communicative translation in which semantic translation focus primarily upon the semantic content of the source text and communicative translation focuses essentially upon the comprehension and response of the receptors” (Nida, 2001). Although Peter Newmark is not as influential as Eugene A. Nida, his theories are easier to understand and more popular among student translators. This part presents some excerpts of Peter Newmark’s theories from his book A Textbook of Translation.(page117, ACoursebook on English-Chinese and Chinese-English Translation) Ernest Gutt and His Translation Theories Translaiton study from revelance perspective Relevance theory, developed by Sperber Wilson, in Relevance: Communication and Cognition (2001), came into birth in rejecting the inadequacy of the traditional communication theories. Sperber Wilson define relevance theory as “a new approach to the study of human communication.” (Sperber Wilson, 2001) The birth of relevance theory is the reconciling of both the code model and the inferential model, on which the two linguists comment, “…the inferential model is adequate by itself to account for at least some forms of communication. On the other hand, there is no doubt that most cases of communication involve the use of a code… The code model and the inferential model are not incompatible… Thus both the code model and the inferential model can contribute to the study of verbal communication.” (Sperber Wilson, 2001) Based on this compromise, the relevance theory proposes the ostensive-inferential model of communication, in which human communica