A Report On The Translation Of You're The Only One I Can Tell: Inside The Language Of Women's Friendships (Chapter 6)

This is a report on the translation of Chapter 6 of You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships authored by Deborah Tannen,an American academic professor.The book is about general information of intimacy and its potential harm to friendships.This translation report is mainly classified into four chapters: Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to project background,objectives and structure of the translation report.Chapter 2 consists of the author's basic information,publishing facts and main ideas of the original text.Based on Peter Newmark's text theory,the source text belongs to informative texts.The translation of such text focuses on the accuracy.Chapter 3 contains a careful description of guiding theory and its direction to this translation project.For the reason that the source text is categorized into informative text,the translator adopts Newmark's “communicative translation” strategy as guidance.Chapter 4 concludes with the experience and lessons from the translation as well as the problems to be resolved.