E-C Translation Report Of The Great Clod:Tactics In Achieving The Text Cohesion

The Great Clod,featured by prose style,covers Zen,geography,history and culture.Based on the first five chapters in The Great Clod,this report summarizes the major difficulties encountered in the translation process.Thanks to the systemic analyses on difficulties,coupled with the guidance of the cohesion and coherence theory proposed by Halliday,the difficulties are solved respectively.Three major difficulties are highlighted as follows:(1)Building logical relations when conjunctives are missing;(2)Clarifying tangled relations caused by pronouns and the definite article;(3)Constructing S-V relations when the information of theme and rheme is disarrayed.During the translation,cohesion in target text is impaired by the above mentioned difficulties.Hence,the cohesive devices proposed in the cohesion and coherence theory need to be applied in the target text.Here listed the strategies adopted in the report:(1)In a bid to deliver more cohesive text in a semantic level,conjunctives are added to render logical relations clear;(2)The original concepts are reiterated to specify the confusing relations caused by the definite article and the overuse of pronouns;(3)The relations of S-V are reconstructed when there is disarrayed information seen in clauses or sentences by theme and rheme.This report attempts to give different perspectives for prose translation,proving that the cohesion and coherence theory does play a certain role in prose translation.However,the report has limitations on account of complexity in prose texts.Hence,the more sophisticated strategies for other difficulties still need to be elaborated in the long term.