A Report On The Translation Of The All-or-nothing Marriage (Excerpt) Under The Guidance Of Tytler's Three Principles Of Translation

Marriage is the foundation of a family which is the basic social unit of human beings.Therefore,to study this social phenomenon is both instructive and significant for everyone and the society at large.This report is based on a marriage monograph,The All-or-Nothing Marriage,which studies the evolution and trend of marriage in the United States.The source text is excerpted from the first chapter,the fifth and the sixth sections in chapter three of this book.As the source text falls into the social science text,its language is formal and plain with smooth and logical syntactic structures.Based on Newmark's typology theory,the source text can be categorized as informative-focused text with expressive elements.So the target text should be as close to the source text as it can be.Tytler's three principles theory proposes that a translation should give a complete transcript of the original work;a translation should be of the same character in the style and manner of the original;and a translation should have all the ease of original composition.Therefore,the translator finds that the three principles can be applied to guide this translation practice.Under the guidance of Tytler's three principles,the content of the source text is reproduced as closely as possible by annotation,paraphrase,amplification and omission;the style and manner of the original are better resembled by imitation;and ease of the target text can be achieved by conversion,structural recombination,idiomatic expression and cultural convention.It concludes that Tytler's three principles can be used to achieve faithfulness,resemblance of original style and manner,and ease in the target text.