A Practice Report On E-C Translation Of Adolescence And Emerging Adulthood(Sixth Edition)(Excerpts)

Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood(sixth edition)is a textbook of psychology written by Jeffrey Arnett,a psychology professor who founded the theory of emerging adulthood.The book is used as pedagogy and psychology textbooks in many schools.This book can not only impart relevant psychological knowledge,but also give parents some inspiration on how to educate their children.The book contains many technical terms in psychology and examples of adolescent development.The translation of this book is of great significance to the study of psychological text translation.What is more,it helps us provide a favorable environment for adolescent development.This book has a total of 13 chapters.The translator translates the third chapter of the book.Based on Piaget’s cognitive theory,this chapter elaborates the cognitive development of adolescents,and analyzes adolescents from the aspects of information processing,social cognition,practical cognition,intelligence test and brain development.This translation practice report introduces the significance of the translation project and the nature of the text,illustrates the preparatory work before translation,translation process,and the review after translation.Considering the special nature of psychological texts,the translator,guided by Eugene Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory,analyzes the examples of professional vocabulary,long difficult sentences and textual cohesion from lexical,syntactic and textual levels.In face of a series of difficulties encountered in translation,the translator uses literal translation,amplification and other translation methods to make the target text conform to the target readers’ reading habits.Finally,the translator summarizes the translation practice and accumulates some experience for the translation work in the future.