A Report On The Translation Of Memory Loss,Alzheimer’s Disease,and Dementia-a Practical Guide For Clinicians(Chapter 1-2)

This report is based on the translation of the Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Memory Loss,Alzheimer’s Disease,and Dementia-A Practical Guide for Clinicians written by Andrew E.Budson and Paul R.Solomon.The source text explores the common signs and symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease,diagnosis and treatment of dementia from the perspective of memory loss for accurate diagnosis and targeted treatment.This translation project aims to provide relevant professional knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia for Chinese readers and medical workers,thus arousing their awareness,broadening their horizons and deepening their understanding.The source text is an informative text,which is both logical in its content and professional in its expression,so Peter Newmark’s communicative translation theory can be used as theoretical foundation for the translation project.Therefore,focus should be placed on both the accuracy of information transmission of the source text and the acceptance and response of the target text readers.The translator mainly analyzes the difficulties at lexical,syntactic and textual levels respectively with typical cases and proposes various translation methods as their corresponding solutions.The difficulties include how to translate technical terms,proper nouns and acronyms,how to deal with passive voice and complicated sentences and how to tackle cohesion and informativity.Therefore,the translator employs translation methods of transliteration,division and combination,amplification,restructuring,conversion,voice change and shift of perspective,etc.to achieve more desirable translation effect.This translation report explores translation strategies and methods under the guidance of communicative translation theory and will hopefully provide referential value for translators who specialize in medical translation.