A Report On The Translation Of Attributive Clauses Guided By The Functional Equivalence Theory

This report is based on the translation of The New Psychology of Leadership,which is written by S· Alexander Haslam,Stephen D· Reicher and Michael J· Platow,and their research areas are both social and organizational psychology.Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors.Psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases.This report selects the first chapter of the New Psychology of Leadership to translate.Due to the source text belongs to the field of psychology,it is necessary to have certain psychological knowledge as the background,so it is a great challenge and innovative to translate this book.After knowing the source text,choosing the correct translation tool,according to the characteristics of psychological text,finally functional equivalence theory is chosen as the guiding theory of this report.In the process of translation,the translator studies characteristics of psychological text,such as vocabulary,long and difficult sentences attributive clauses,aims at the lexical and syntactic translation problems,comprehensive using the translation strategies of pre-modifier,post-modifier and blending,strives to the professionalism,accuracy of the translation,makes the translation smoothly and naturally,and conforms to the Chinese readers' reading habits.By translating this book,the translation theory can be applied to the practical activities.It can be predicted the difficulties that encountered in the process of translation,found theoretical support and solutions.Therefore,it can enhance theory literacy and translation competence;improve the attention of psychological translation and the specialization of English.