A Translation Report On Debating Same-sex Marriage(Excerpts)

This is a translation report on Debating Same-Sex Marriage, which was written by John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher. By taking a "point/counterpoint" approach, this book goes deeply into the most controversial topic—same-sex marriage and the authors try to convince readers of their respective opinions. This argumentative writing material is rich in long and complicated sentences, proper names and famous quotations in colloquial style. It takes time to produce a stylistic effect and feature corresponding to that of the original. With the help of Katharina Reiss’ s text typology, the Introduction and the first part of Chapter one(What marriage is for) in the book of Debating Same-Sex Marriage is chosen for analysis on the basis of the theory of Dynamic Equivalence put forward by Eugene A. Nida. By carefully classifying and concluding the problems encountered in the process of translation, the author hopes to find the most appropriate translating methods for dealing with the informative text from the perspective of Dynamic Equivalence and provide some references for the people who are interested in it.This paper mainly includes five parts:(1) Task description, including introduction to the authors, the translation material, the requirement of the task as well as the type of the text;(2) Process description, consisting of the process of pre-translating, while-translating and post-translating;(3) Theoretical framework—Dynamic Equivalence. This part mainly provides some general introduction to Eugene A. Nida and his Dynamic Equivalence, which lay the foundation for later discussion;(4) Case Analysis. Taking different angles, the author analyzes the translation meticulously and systematically on the basis of Dynamic Equivalence.(5) Conclusion, including a brief summary on the difficulties and the problems with putting Dynamic Equivalence into practice.