Author(s)

Lidan Shen^1,2

¹Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing, China.
²Philippine Christian University, Manila, Philippine.

The functional equivalence theory founded by Eugene Nida is significant for its translation purposes. Translation is based on the target language of cultural transfer, communicative interaction and cross-cultural events. This paper studies the definition and characteristics of psychology based on the functional equivalence theory. What’s more, this paper analyzes the development of Chinese psychological terminology and its implications for the development of indigenous psychology. This thesis insists that we should translate the psychological terminology by the way of word-for-word translation, paraphrasing, borrowing translation and transliteration.

Psychology, Terminology, Translation

Shen, L. (2022) On Translation of Psychological Terminology. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 315-323. doi: 10.4236/jss.2022.103023.