The Translating Methods Of The Lexical Cohesion In The Floating Opera

The author of the novel The Floating Opera is the famous American writer John Bass. This novel talks about Andrew, the main character, his investigation of the reason of his father’s suicide action, and his love affair with his good friend Mike’s wife. Andrew racks his brain to sink the showboat names “the floating opera” in the name of suicide, but finally ended in failure.This thesis takes the lexical cohesion theory as the instruction and translates some chapters of The Floating Opera. The lexical cohesion features of the novel are obvious. There are a lot of repeated vocabularies, near-synonyms and antonyms in the novel. It analyses translating methods from the characteristics of the lexical cohesion of this novel. The writer tries to take the lexical cohesion theory as the instruction and analysis the translation of the lexical cohesion in this novel, sums up the following five translating methods: Transplanting method, Conversion, Omission, Amplification and Reverse translating, which hope it can give a little reference to the texts of the same type. When translating the above lexical cohesion, the key to successfully reappear the original text’s language style is to choose the appropriate translating methods to handle the lexical cohesion in this novel.