A Report On The Translation Of The New Class War:Saving Democracy From The Managerial Elite(Chapters 6-7)

This is a report on the translation of Michael Lind’s The New Class War:Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite,in which Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 have been chosen as the source text in the translation project.The source text can be categorized as a political work.In the book,the author describes the class opposition between the managerial elites and the working class in western democratic countries.Chapter 6 analyzes the two major factors threatening western democracy,while Chapter7 describes the soft weapons used by the establishment to fight against populism.Through this translation project,it is beneficial for the target-language readers to have a deeper comprehension of the political society of the West and to present rational insight into the future development of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic.In this report,the translator analyzed the linguistic style of the source text,classifies it as an informative text according to Reiss’ s text type theory and adopted Newmark’s communicative translation theory as the macro-guide.In the process of translation,the translator adopted different translation strategies to solve the difficulties at the lexical and syntactic levels.At the lexical level,the semantic adaptation method was adopted to solve the difficulty of choosing the word meaning;For words with background information,the translator added necessary semantic explanations.At the syntactic level,cohesive devices were produced flexibly through the method of addition.And for the complicated sentences,syntactic rearrangement was adopted to reintegrate the original information according to the thinking mode and logical order of the targetlanguage readers so that the translation can be better accepted.