"De-Self Management" (excerpt) Ego Free Leadership (excerpts) Translation Practice Report

The material selected for this English-Chinese translation report is the Chapter Eight of Ego Free Leadership,which is a management book written by Brandon Black,the Encore Capital's president and CEO,as well as Shyne Hughs,the president of Learning as Leadership.The book mainly talks about how Brandon and his executive coach Shyne transform disasters into blessings in enterprise transformation and upgrading.Chapter Eight is about Brandon changing management style and an agreement is reached with the nonprofit organization on debt issues.The translation project is aimed to provide target readers with valuable management references.As a management text,the language of this book is authentic and concise,with rigorous structure and strong logic.In light of the characteristics of the source text,the original author and the target receptors,Relevance Translation Theory is used to guide the translation report.Relevance Translation Theory points out that translation is a process of two rounds of ostensive-inferential.As a communicator,the translator should understand the communicative intentions of the original author and the cognitive environments of the target readers,so that the readers can obtain enough contextual effects with proper processing efforts.That makes the translation more understandable and more effective to achieve the communicative purposes.The report adopts amplification to translation polysemous words,idioms and slang;Literal translation,free translation and amplification are used to address translation of passive sentences,long and complex sentences and the cohesion and coherence of discourse.The translation report is composed of four chapters as task description,process description,case analysis and conclusion.It is hoped to improve the study of Chinese translation of management books and make some contributions and provide some references to translation of the management books.