A Report On The Translation Of Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life (Chapter 6)

The source text of this translation report is chapter 6 “Why Social Media is Ruining Your Career & Money” in the book Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life.Katherine Ormerod wrote this book to expound the harm of social media based on her own working experience in fashion industry.This book,divided into 7 chapters,illustrates the influence of social media on women identity,body image,health,relationships,motherhood,career & money and politics.Selecting this book as the source text,the author aims to offer some advice on career and consumerism for graduating students.In 1965,Catford,a western translation theorist,first put forward “translation shifts” in his book A Linguistic Theory of Translation,in which he detailedly classified and summarized various kinds of shifts that occurred at lexical and syntactic levels of the target text.With clear classification and wide applicability,his theory has groundbreaking significance in many studies on translation shifts.Therefore,this thesis selects Catford’s translation shifts theory to analyze the translation.Guided by Catford’s translation shifts theory,this thesis selects some typical examples from “Why Social Media is Ruining Your Career & Money” and discusses the application of Catford’s translation shifts theory from the perspectives of level shifts and category shifts.The author hopes that this report will offer helpful insights and reference for translation practice.