A Report On E-C Translation Of The Power Of Ritual(Excerpt) From The Perspective Of Nord’s Function Plus Loyalty Theory

The Power of Ritual is selected as the source of this report.It is a psychology-related text in which the author discusses how to rebuild connections with the world and cope with stress from work and life with the help of the sense of ritual.The source text is authoritative and persuasive due to the use of proper nouns related to religions.It is legible because the author tells personal experience to explain complicated concepts.And the use of rhetoric devices makes the text appealing.What the translator has to do is to convey the message of the original text while retaining the unique language features of it so as to follow the writing purpose of the author and meet the reading expectations of Chinese readers.To realize these goals,Nord’s "function plus loyalty" theory is employed to guide the translation process."Function" refers to the factors that make a target text work in the intended way in the target situation."Loyalty",as the supplement to Skopos theory,refers to the interpersonal relationship between the translator,the source-text sender,the target-text addresses and the initiator.Based on her theory,different translation strategies like addition and omission are selected in various contexts to achieve the expected translation effect and improve the translation quality.The findings of the report show that it is feasible to employ Nord’s "function plus loyalty" to guide the translation process.To make it clear,the author of the report demonstrates its feasibility in case analysis at lexical and syntactical level.The lexical level is mainly composed of the translation of proper nouns,the translation of polysemous words and the translation of idioms,while the syntactic level covers rhetoric devices,passive voice,compound sentences and complex sentences.With the help of Nord’s functional ideas,the complete information of the source text is conveyed to target audience and the unique features of the source text are maintained in the target text.The author of the report hopes this report could raise people’s awareness of psychological trouble and offer useful techniques to tackle these problems.If possible,the author also hopes this report could give some new ideas to psychological experts and those who are fond of psychology.On the theoretical side,it would be meaningful if this report helps more translators apply Nord’s function plus loyalty into other psychological work translation process and other types of translations.