Cultural Basis of Metaphors Translation: Case of Emotions in Persian and English

Safarnejad, Fatemeh; Abdullah, Imran Ho; Awal, Norsimah Mat

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“…In their analysis of happiness and sadness metaphorical expressions, Safarnejad et al (2014) argued that translating metaphors is not simply a matter of finding linguistic correspondences between Persian and English, as understanding their underlying conceptual systems is required too. They found that sometimes metaphors in the two languages have universal linguistic content (i.e., the same words are used in the expression) and conceptual mappings, yet they can also be different either linguistically or in conceptualizing the metaphor.…”

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“…Many researchers have applied CMT in their analysis of metaphors and their translations, (see e.g., Hastürkoğlu, 2017; Al-Badri & As-sammarrai, 2021; Lei & Yi, 2020). Some researchers have only focused on analyzing emotion-related metaphors within the framework of CMT, (see e.g., Safarnejad et al, 2014;Hamdi, 2015;Hanić et al, 2016). Others have depended on the CTH as their theoretical framework such as Al-Zoubi et al (2007).…”

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Analysis of ‘Heart’ Metaphors in the Translation of To The Lighthouse: A Cognitive-Inspired Approach

Alnaeem¹,

Almohizea²

2023

IJEL

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Metaphors as a matter of thought can differ across languages and cultures depending on life experience, cultural background and individual differences. Emotion-related metaphors are widely used specifically in literary texts for conveying certain effects. Translating emotion-related metaphors can be a hard task, as problems arise due to differences between two conceptual systems. Several researchers have highlighted the importance of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) for understanding and analyzing metaphors. This study aims to analyze emotion-related metaphors, particularly the ‘heart’ metaphors extracted from the novel To The Lighthouse and their translation into Arabic. In the analysis, the researchers identified the underlying conceptual metaphor of each metaphorical expression and looked at how it was expressed at the linguistic level. The conceptual metaphors of the source text (ST) and the target text (TT) were then categorized considering the Cognitive Translation Hypothesis (CTH). The findings indicate that ‘heart’ metaphors were used similarly at the conceptual level in both languages, but in some cases, they differed slightly at the linguistic level. This confirms the basic premise that some emotion-related concepts are universal and deeply rooted in our thought and cognition. The translator used the strategy of addition mostly to produce a plausible equivalent. Moreover, it was found that ‘heart’ occurred more frequently in the Arabic translation of the novel in which metaphorization was used to express emotions in the ST even if ‘heart’ was not used in the expression.

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Section: ) Approaches To the Translation Of Emotionmentioning

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Section: Design Of the Studymentioning

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Analysis of ‘Heart’ Metaphors in the Translation of To The Lighthouse: A Cognitive-Inspired Approach

Alnaeem¹,

Almohizea²

2023

IJEL

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“…Many studies have addressed the variety of cognitive approaches to metaphor translation of miscellaneous texts but not the Qur'an. Some of those studies are (Al-Hasnawi, 2007;Crofts, 1982;Dickins, n.d.;Fernández, 2011a;Iranmanesh & Kulwindr Kaur, 2010;López & Llopis, 2008;Zouhair Maalej, 2011;Mandelblit, 1995;Mohammad et al, 2007;Nokele, 2015;Safarnejad et al, 2014;Schäffner, 2004) among others.…”

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Translating Conceptual Qur’anic Metaphor: A Cogno-Translational Approach

Al-Sowaidi

Mohammed

Banda

2021

AJIS

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This study will investigate metaphor translation as a natural phenomenon. It will analyze some of the problems involving the translation of metaphorical expressions in two Qur’anic translations, namely, Yusuf Ali's The Holy Qur’an: Text, Translation and Commentary and Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar's The Sublime Qur’an. The analysis in this study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as a cognitive framework of metaphor, which helps conciliate the cultural specificity of metaphors and their transference into linguistically and culturally unrelated languages. The present analysis is based on Mandelblit’s Cognitive Translation Hypothesizes (CTH) (Mandelblit (1995), Maalej’s strategies of translating metaphor (Maalej, 2002, 2008) and Kövecses’s concept of Cultural Variation (Kövecses, 2002,2006). This kind of eclecticism provides a wide-ranging approach to be followed while analyzing the translation of Qur'anic metaphors. The approach used in this study does not only deal with the linguistic aspects of Qur'anic metaphors, but also pays attention to their conceptual and cultural aspects. Cross-cultural variation can affect the outcome of translating metaphorical expressions. Thus, the translator is obliged to adopt certain strategies to preserve the subtle nuances of the original Arabic text and its socio-cultural context, while at the same time ensuring that the translation is accessible to the target audience. This study concludes that most of the conceptual metaphors under scrutiny have been literally translated into English, which is frequently inaccurate. English and Arabic often diverge in their conceptualization in general texts, but especially in sensitive texts like the Qur'an. Therefore, the conceptualizations of some Qur'anic metaphors are often lost in translation. Received: 19 July 2020 / Accepted: 9 November 2020/ Published: 17 January 2021

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“…Hikma 20 (2) (2021), 153 -176 Some other studies have focused their attention on particular types of metaphor in translation. For instance, Safarnejad et al (2014) have explored the translation of emotion metaphors, such as happiness and sadness, from Persian into English. Nevertheless, their data was not extensive, since it was simply comprised of a Persian novel and two of its English translations.…”

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Metaphors and the Degree of Conventionality in Translation of Prose Fiction: A Fraction of the Whole in Focus

Hesabi

Bakhshi

Sadrnia³

2021

hikma

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The idea of metaphor classification is regarded as how felicitously they are entrenched in everyday language spoken by ordinary people. Metaphor conventionality can be regarded as a scale whose opposite ends constitute conventional and creative metaphors. Logic indicates that the majority of linguistic metaphors are well-worn and conventional rather than novel, since an excess of novel metaphors may remarkably bring about “communicative surprise” (Rabadán Álvarez, 1991) thus increase cognitive processing time and even hinder perceiving. Metaphorical creativity, as the other extreme of the scale of conventionality, can be looked at as the use of conceptual metaphors and/ or their linguistic manifestations that are creative or novel. This study seeks to scrutinize the scale of conventionality in the Persian translation of A Fraction of the Whole. MIP known as Metaphor Identification Procedure put forward by the Pragglejaz Group (2007) was employed in the study to identify metaphors. The findings reveal that, sometimes, the metaphors used in L1 are novel or creative, but the translator draws upon conventional or entrenched ones in L2, or vice versa. The aim is to show the translator's choice of metaphor in terms of a conventionality scale using some previous cognitive models in this regard.

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Cultural Basis of Metaphors Translation: Case of Emotions in Persian and English

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Analysis of ‘Heart’ Metaphors in the Translation of To The Lighthouse: A Cognitive-Inspired Approach

Analysis of ‘Heart’ Metaphors in the Translation of To The Lighthouse: A Cognitive-Inspired Approach

Translating Conceptual Qur’anic Metaphor: A Cogno-Translational Approach

Metaphors and the Degree of Conventionality in Translation of Prose Fiction: A Fraction of the Whole in Focus

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