Strategies For Eglish To Chinese Translation Of Interview Articles

An interview article is an edited piece of writing of conversations between an interviewer and an interviewee,and in translation,discourse coherence of the target text is essential for readers to reconstruct coherence in reading.Based on a case analysis of the E-C translation project of interviews with Milan Kundera and Sally Rooney,the thesis addresses main problems in identifying the coherence mechanism of the source text from the grammatical and pragmatic perspectives,proposing effective translation strategies on producing discourse coherence in the target text.As interview articles,the case text is of literary value and records the immediate interactions between the speakers,making it highly context-dependent.Grammatically speaking,discourse coherence of the source text is organized mainly through an extensive use of reference and frequent tense changes.From the pragmatic perspective,the lexical cohesion relations of reiteration and collocation and cultural default develop an implicit discourse coherence of the text.Comparing the original translation and the modified version,the thesis offers specific solutions to constructing discourse coherence in the target text.At the grammatical level,the method of explicate the reference and restoring the tense information is adopted;at the pragmatic level,it is effective to retain the form of reiteration,determine the accurate meaning of a word according to the context,and compensate for the cultural default within the text.The thesis emphasizes the process of "decoding" the discourse coherence of the source text and "recoding" it in the target text,in the hope of bring an different perspective in translation practice.