A Translation Project Report Of Performance Breakthrough:A Radical Approach To Success At Work (Preface And Chapter One)

This is a translation project report on the preface and the first chapter of Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work.The source text introduces a sophisticated methodology of how to use performance to change your way of speaking and working so as to achieve breakthroughs at work.This method originates from an emerging discipline named performative psychology.In the preface of this book,the author illustrates the reason for writing this book and her education background and life experience.In the first chapter,the writer makes some real and vivid examples to state what performative psychology is and its concrete function.The source text involves the proper nouns of performative psychology,which requires the translator to be equipped with a wealth of multidisciplinary knowledge,to master solid bilingual skills,and to employ appropriate translation strategies and methods in line with the text type and a particular translation theory.The preface and the first chapter of Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work can be classified as informative text.Mainly under the guidance of Skopos Theory,this translation project is aimed at making target language readers understand the target text more clearly.In the process of translation,the translator had met some translation difficulties such as terms,figures of speech,long and complicated sentences.In order to solve those problems mentioned above,the translator has adopted the corresponding solutions including literal translation,transliteration,and some translation techniques such as splitting,conversion of voice and addition.All those solutions are of great help to render the target text more faithful and expressive,which contributes to helping readers grasp the meaning of the source text.This translation project with a certain value and significance can not only provide materials for readers to learn about performative psychology,but also improve the translator's translation ability.