A Report On The E-C Translation Of Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking(Excerpts)

This report focuses on the translation of the second chapter of Emotional:How Feelings Shape Our Thinking,a psychology book by Leonard Mlodinow.In this book the author explores the root causes and significance of emotions that affect people’s daily lives and shape their thinking.Skopos theory is applied as a theoretical guidance in translating the selected text.There are three rules consisting of Skopos theory including purpose,coherence and fidelity.This theory emphasizes the purpose of translation because it determines the application of translation strategies.In the target text,implicit relationship between sentences,vague pronouns,omission of a word or words and lack of conjunctions cause difficulties in translating and understanding.These difficulties cause semantic ambiguity and logic confusion without being dealt with.As a result,the target readers may find it challenging to acquire and accurately understand the information provided.Explicitation refers to the presentation of obscure information of the original text in a clearer and simpler way by adding information while textual explicitation means the explicitation of replacing implicit cohesion with explicit cohesion.To overcome these problems,explicitation strategies are employed to translate the source language based on this theory to make it clearer,more cohesive and logical,increasing coherence and enabling readers to absorb the maximum amount of source text information.To indicate clearly hidden information,the translator employed four translation techniques: specifying references,specifying substitutions,adding conjunctions and ellipsis supplements.