A Report On The Translation Of The Foreword And Chapter1of The Sociology Of Culture By Raymond Williams

This is a translation project report on “the Foreword and Chapter1” of TheSociology of Culture written by Raymond Williams. The author was one of theworld’s most important Marxism cultural critics and one of the important founders ofcultural studies in the middle of the20thcentury, and was also honored as “theforemost socialist thinker, intellectual and cultural activist in postwar England.” Thisis a book about the sociology of culture. With several aspects such as culturalinstitutions, cultural configuration, the production mode of culture and reproductionand so on, Williams strikes up the theoretical framework of sociology of culture. Thetranslation project report consists of four parts: the first part is the translation projectdescription which includes the project background, objectives, significance and thestructure of the report. In the second part, the background information of the author,main contents, stylistic analysis and linguistic features of the source text are included.The third part focuses on the encountered difficulties and the translation skills adoptedin the translation process, including using linear and inverse translation, specific andabstract translation methods, adopting the amplification and omission in translation.The fourth part summarizes the experiences and lessons gained by the translator andthe insufficiencies that should be made up in the future.