The Application Of Communicative Translation And Semantic Translation In E-C Translation Of Academic Works

Discourse analysis is the analysis of the language used in real contexts. As a newand independent discipline, discourse analysis has been developing vigorously inrecent decades and playing an important role in guiding and analyzing humancommunicative activities. Discourse Analysis, co-authored by Gillian Brown andGeorge Yule, mainly explores a variety of theories and methods on discourse analysisand systematically discusses how language is used in real life. It is worthy of readingfor learners in this area. Since this book is professional, involving knowledge oflinguistics, psychology and other disciplines, it is difficult to translate.In order to exactly convey the original meaning, emphasize the effect ofinformation transferring and the reaction of the target-language readers, and maintainthe original meaning and form of the examples in the original text, the author attemptsto choose Peter Newmark s communicative translation and semantic translation. Thistranslation report, based on the case study of translation of the first three chapters ofDiscourse Analysis, explores the use of Peter Newmark s communicative translationand semantic translation to solve the problems in the translation of the original text,such as problems of the translation of linguistic terms, compound sentences,conversion from the passive voice to the active voice, the choices of sentences subjects, and the translation of examples in the original text. This translation reportwould be helpful to the translation of academic works.