1 Introduction

Discusses the importance of telling China's stories well in the context of international communication capacity building and the pivotal role of translation talent. Emphasizes the criticality of teaching materials in cultivating foreign language professionals, particularly the contribution of the "Understanding Contemporary China" translation textbook series to enhancing the quality of translation talent development. The article focuses on how to effectively utilize these materials in teaching and introduces Jef Verschueren's "Adaptation Theory" and the concept of pragmatic competence from the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages." It analyzes translations in the "Advanced Chinese-French Translation Tutorial: Understanding Contemporary China" to explore how translation choices are made based on pragmatic needs to achieve high-quality political literature translations.

2 Theoretical Foundation and Literature Review

Verschueren's Adaptation Theory emphasizes the variability, negotiability, and adaptability of language use, offering four dimensions for pragmatic research, including contextual adaptation. Contextual adaptation examines the alignment between language choices and context, encompassing communicative context and linguistic context. Linguistic context involves intratextual cohesion, intertextuality, and linear sequencing. Adaptation Theory has gained attention in translation studies, covering macro-level guidance, text translation strategies, and pedagogical applications. However, research on translating political texts, particularly Chinese-French political literature, remains relatively limited.

3 Research Design

Introduces the research object, the "Advanced Chinese-French Translation Tutorial: Understanding Contemporary China," which aims to integrate ideological and political education into Chinese-French translation instruction, helping students master the discourse system with Chinese characteristics. The study centers on the "key sentences" and "translation practice" sections across the textbook's ten thematic units, employing qualitative analysis supplemented by quantitative analysis, with data processed using MAXQDA2022 software. Research steps include extracting and converting textbook content, error checking, software encoding, quantitative data presentation, and analysis of representative translation examples.

4 Analysis of Linguistic Context Adaptation

This chapter delves into linguistic context adaptation in political literature translation, addressing three core aspects: intratextual cohesion, intertextuality, and linear sequencing. Intratextual cohesion is key to ensuring textual coherence and logical consistency, relying on grammatical and lexical devices such as reference, substitution, and ellipsis to achieve textual cohesion. Coherence pertains to semantic connections, forming an invisible network of meaning through logical reasoning. Verschueren proposes various methods, including conjunctions, anaphora, and self-reference, to ensure textual coherence. Textbook analysis reveals frequent use of determiners, pronouns, and connectives in translations to achieve intratextual cohesion, with possessive adjectives being the most prevalent, aiding in ambiguity reduction and clarifying logical relationships. Pronoun usage helps construct clear, accurate, and coherent translated texts. Connectives, such as coordinating conjunctions and purpose markers, are crucial for elucidating policy intentions and objectives.

Intertextuality involves relationships between texts, such as citations, rewritings, and interactions between preface authors and book authors or content. Political literature often cites allusions, classical sayings, and other culturally unique expressions, which are focal points in translation learning. The textbook explores translation strategies for cited content, such as methods for translating classical quotations. Intertextuality also refers to how texts are influenced by themes, genres, and other factors. The textbook's texts cover diverse themes, including speeches by Xi Jinping, with translations reflecting stylistic features of speeches, such as direct address, emphatic tones, and calls to action.

Linear sequencing focuses on the logical relationships and discourse order within a text. Chinese expressions prioritize meaning coherence and internal logic, while French emphasizes grammatical structure, leading to differences in sentence organization. Chinese sentences often follow a "time-oriented" flow, whereas French uses grammatical elements to indicate logical relationships. Translators must account for these differences to ensure natural fluency and faithful conveyance of the source text's communicative purpose.

5 Conclusion

Discusses the application of Verschueren's contextual adaptation theory in political literature translation, analyzing adaptation strategies in the "Tutorial" for intratextual cohesion, intertextuality, and linear sequencing. These strategies include adding determiners, pronouns, and connectives; translating cited content; and adjusting paragraph division and sentence order. The goal is to produce semantically coherent translations while cultivating students' discourse construction skills and effective communicative competence.

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