A Report On E-C Translation Of Medical Texts Based On Adaptation Theory

Medicine is a highly specialized discipline.Medical information of new techniques,new therapies,new drugs nowadays is updating at an unprecedented speed,which causes the swift growth of demand for medical translation serving as an important route to medical information exchanges home and abroad.The translator of this report analyzes a range of problems in the translating process and proposes corresponding solutions in order to enrich the perspective of studies on the translation of medical texts.This thesis takes clinical trial literature of zoonosis as the object of study,briefly introducing several procedures before and after translation,describing in detail problems of E-C Translation of medical texts under the guidance of Adaptation Theory.In case study,through modification and comparison of different versions,this thesis analyzes the contextual correlates of adaptation in the translation process from communicative and linguistic contexts,studies the structural objects of adaptation in translation at lexical,syntactic,and textual levels,and expounds the dynamics from the perspective of relation between context and linguistic choice,upon which the author proposes corresponding translation methods.The research results show that Adaptation Theory could be effectively applied to E-C translation of medical texts,and could guide the translation in the following aspects:Firstly,in the translation process,the context factors deserve to be carefully considered,including the participants who are involved into the translation event,influencing agents in physical world and mental world as well as linguistic contexts,including cohesion,intertextuality and sequencing.Secondly,utterance-building principles and target language specification are also regarded as important contributors to translation.Thirdly,discourses should be analyzed from the perspective of intertextuality and topic progression.Finally,it is worth emphasizing the crucial role of dynamics which encourages the translator to consider translation as a process with dynamic adaptation and variation.