General and Legal Translation读书报告.doc

2013届研究生期末考试论文General and Legal Translation读书报告姓 名： 系 别： 专 业： 学 号： 指导教师： 2013年12月3Reading Report on General and Legal TranslationSouthwest University of Political Science and LawDecember 2013西南政法大学外语学语研究生期末考试论文Contents摘 要IAbstractIIContentsIII1Introduction12The History of Western Translation .2 3The Impact of Culture on General and Legal Translation.5 3.1 The Impact of History and Culture on Legal Translation. 53.2 Value Reflected in the General Translation. 64Methods and Examples for Advertisement Translation64.1Literal Translation.64.2Direct Translation7 4.3When Is a Document a Legal Document75Conclusion11References121 Introduction After reading the book General and Legal Translation, I have learnt much about general translation and legal translation. Besides, I have a clear mind about the history of translation in the West. In the book, the author described the history of western translation, the approaches to translating in the western world. From the book, I learn how to be the best kind of orator and translator. I have the chance to know the work of the Seventy-Two, the creation of the Septuagint. After learning the three types of translation, the three laws of translation, the definition of translation, the name and nature of translation studies, I made a great progress on translation. Three factors worked to limit this sharp focus on descriptive linguistics as the major form of discourse on translation. The first was the questioning of Chomskys linguistic theories by linguists themselves. The second was the development of a number of new and dynamic fields within linguistics, such as discourse analysis, text linguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, prototype semantics, and other assorted wonders (Pym 1992: 184). These wonders took in prior fields such as British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology, as well as contemporary and parallel developments in philosophy, information and communication theories, computational linguistics, machine translation, artificial intelligence, and the ideas of socio-semiotics as developed within French structuralist and post-structuralist thought (Nida 2001: 110). The sense increased that: Language is not the problem. Ideology and politics are (Lefevere 1990: 26). This has led to a separation between linguistic and cultural approaches to translation in the last quarter of the twentieth century. For some translation scholars, indeed, it has seemed that strictly linguistic theories have been superseded, as translation has come to be considered in its cultural, historical and sociological context (Woodsworth 1998: 100) nd the third factor was the emergence of Translation Studies, the systematic study of translation.not as an intrinsic part of the foreign language teaching process, but for its own sake (Bassnett-McGuire 1980: 1, slightly modified). The field of Translation Studies was decisively defined by the American scholar, James Holmes, in his 1972 paper on The Name and Nature of Translation Studies. There Holmes rejoiced that, After centuries of incidental and desultory attention from a scattering of authors, philologians sic, and literary scholars, plus here and there a theologian or an idiosyncratic linguist, there has been a new and increasing interest in translation after the Second World War, particularly from the adjacent fields of linguistics, linguistic philosophy, and literary studies, but also from such seemingly more remote disciplines as information theory, logic and mathematics (Venuti 2000: 173). Holmes divides Translation Studies into two major branches, Pure and Applied, and then sub-divides the Pure into two further sub-branches: Theoretical and Descriptive Translation Studies.ReferencesChen, Qian. 2004. Shangmao yingyu duihua English for business. Beijing：Duiwai jingmao daxue chubanshe.Yu, Hailong. 2006. Guanggao yingyu jichu yu yingyong Advertising English foundation and application. Beijing: Zhongguo shuili shuidian chubanshe.Chen, Hongwei. 1998. Hanying fanyi jichu Chinese-English translation fundamentals. Shanghai: Shanghai waiyu jiaoyan chubanshe.Zhang, Jinghua. 2003. Guanggao fanyi de mudilun The purpose of advertisement Translation Theory. Xiangtan: Xiangtan gongxueyuan chubanshe.Liao, Qiyi. 2000. Dangdai xifang fanyi lilun tansuo Contemporary western translation theory exploration . Nanjing：Yilin chubanshe.Xu, Yuanchong. 1981. Fanyi ji The collection of translation. Beijing: Shangwu yinshuaguan.Biedermann, Hans. 1989. A Meridian book. New York: New York Press.Bassnett, Susan and Andre, Lefevere. Constructing cultures essays on literar