A Translation Report On New Directions In The Sociology Of Aging(Excerpt)

In recent years,with birth rates historically low and life expectancy continuing to rise,China has entered the era of aging society.To cope with this demographic shift effectively,China must strengthen foreign exchanges and learn from the developed countries in pension scheme and social security.Published in 2013,New Directions in the Sociology of Aging is an authoritative and professional book about aging.The author takes the first two chapters of the first part of the book as her translation material,which mainly discusses the current situation and research methods of aging.The selected material is very typical and representative.The concepts of semantic translation and communicative translation are recognized as Newmark’s main contribution to general translation theory and they have a strong guidance for translation practice.Under the guidance of these two translation methods,the author mainly discusses the translation strategies and techniques used in social science texts on the lexical level and the syntactic level,analyzing and solving difficulties,and summarizing the gains and limitations in the course of translation.This translation report is expected to be a reference for future translation of similar texts.