A Report On English-chinese Translation Of“Said,Marxism,and Spatiality: Wars Of Position In Oppositional Criticism”

This translation practice report is based on the academic paper “Said,Marxism,and Spatiality: Wars of Position in Oppositional Criticism”,written by American Professor Robert T.Tally Jr.,who examines Said’s attitude toward Marxism in the broader context of his distinctively spatial approach to literature and culture and argues Said’s work resonates with Marxism in fruitful ways.The original text is an academic paper,which is highly professional and academic.In line with Peter Newmark’s classification of text,it belongs to informative text.This report introduces the original text and proposes solutions to the translation problems from lexical,syntactic and discourse levels according to the type of the original text as well as its linguistic features.In this report,the translator selects suitable translation theories and adopts appropriate techniques in accordance with the characteristics of the text and the difficulties appearing in the translation process.Four parts constitute this report.The first part is the task description,which briefly introduces the background and importance of translation as well as the author and the translation project.The second part is the text analysis,and introduces the language features of the original text.According to Peter Newmark’s classification of texts,the academic paper falls into the category of informative texts.The third part is the solutions to translation problems,which is composed of three aspects: lexical level,syntactic level and discourse level in the light of the language features of academic papers and the difficulties encountered in the process of translation.The fourth part is the conclusion,which introduces the experience gained through this translation practice and the limitations.