A Translation Report Of The Pragmatics Of Translation (Chapter Seven-Chapter Eight) Under The Guidance Of Functional Equivalence Theory

The selected source text of this translation report is chapter seven and chapter eight in The Pragmatics of Translation which is written by Leo Hickey.The first purpose of this report is to guide target readers to learn and understand foreign works and comprehend the relation between pragmatics and translation.Another purpose is to resolve different kinds of problems in this translation project with proper translation methods like sequential method and reversing method.During the translation of this material,this report adopts functional equivalence theory of Nida,a famous translation theorist,as the theoretical foundation.And the key points of this theory are meaning equivalence and reader's response.Directed by this theory,the author translates this material from English into Chinese to achieve faithful and fluent expressions.The author also discusses the translation of attributive clauses and long sentences in the source text with typical cases.Through approaches of translating attributive clauses into Chinese adjectives,coordinate clauses and combined sentences,it is convenient for readers to understand various attributive clauses.Many translation methods such as sequential method,reversing method anddivision are applied to help the author better settle difficulties in the translation of various long sentences.The prospect of this report is that the author can learn more about translation theory and improve her ability with translation practice.In addition,the author also expects that people who need the information of pragmatics translation may also benefit from the Chinese version of this material.