A Translation Report On The Translation Of Sandtray: Playing To Heal, Recover, And Grow (Chapters 2&3)

This source text of this report is drawn from Sandtray: Playing to Heal,Recover,and Grow,written by an American psychotherapist Roxanne Rae and published in 2013.The book provides a combination of theories and case studies to illustrate Sandtray techniques.According to Katharina Reiss’ s text type theory,the source text mainly belongs to informative text.Guided by text type theory,the translator focuses on the accurate transmission of the referential information in the source text and the effect on the target readers,thus making the translation fluent and lucid.This translation report is divided into five chapters.In the beginning,the author gives an overall introduction to this project,including its background,significance and the structure of the report.The second chapter presents information on the author and main contents of the source text,along with an analysis of it.The third chapter includes Katharina Reiss’ s text type theory which is applied in this project.In the fourth chapter,the author analyses the difficulties and key points encountered in this translation project,and comes up with corresponding solutions according to text type theory.The last chapter is conclusion,including the enlightenment from the translation project as well as problems to be resolved in the future.