| This is a translation project report on Celebrity Fans and Their Consumer Behaviour: Autoethnographic Insights into the Life of a Fan by Markus Wohlfeil,of which Chapter 2 The Dangerous Lives of Fans is the source text.This book is primarily a kind of consumer research,which is also located in the field of fandom and celebrity.Besides,it is interdisciplinary including the field of marketing consumer research,film studies and media studies.Therefore,there are many specialized terminology of different academic fields.The main contents of this report are divided into three parts: Part One is the translation project description,including project background,objectives and significance as well as the background of the source text,including the author introduction,linguistic features of the source text.Part Three is about translation difficulties.The difficulties lie in the translation of specialized terminology and proper nouns such as place names,organization names,film names and TV series names.Apart from this,it’s also challenging to translate the long and complex sentences.The methods include semantic translation,change of word order and reversion.Part Four concludes with the reflection and unsolved problems in the translation project. |
