Translation Report On Privileged And Confidential:the Secret History Of The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board From Perspective Of Semantic Translation And Communicative Translation

Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board is a book on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board,an organization which advises the president about intelligence collection,analysis,and estimates,and about the legality of foreign intelligence activities.Historical facts in this book are based on first-hand documents and archives and therefore they are of high authenticity and referential value.The thesis discusses the key features and the common difficulties encountered in the translation process based on semantic translation and communicative translation theories raised by Peter Newmark.The language features of this book,including long sentence,parenthesis,and quotation are pointed out and discussed respectively in the translation specifically.Elements related to historical context and political discourse are also remarked in the discussion.On the basis of these analyses,specific methods such as omission,free translation,conversion,addition,division and inversion from levels of lexical and syntactical elements.The challenges during the translation are compiled and the regularities in translating history have been summarized for recommendation and reference of translation of similar topics.