Metaphor and translation: some implications of a cognitive approach

Schäffner, Christina

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2003.10.012

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“…3 Currently, translation studies is highly interdisciplinary, overarching linguistics, pragmatics, semiotics, psychology, history, sociology, religious studies, political science, comparative literature, intercultural communication, and more. Some translation scholars take a prescriptive path, aiming to present the guidelines for translators (Newmark, 1981(Newmark, , 1988, whereas others advocate for a descriptive path, aiming to study translations as they are with different focuses (van den Broeck, 1981; Holmes,1988;Toury, 1995;Schä ffner, 2004;Chesterman, 1997Chesterman, , 2012.…”

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Metaphors and Translation Prisms

Sato

2015

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Section: Overview Of Translation Approaches and Translation Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metaphors and Translation Prisms

Sato

2015

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“…Inevitably, the translator will have to look for an appropriate translational approach to metaphor, and will sometimes even have to resort to the use of substitution, paraphrase and even deletion in order to produce an adequate translation of the ST (see Schäffner 2004).…”

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“…By bringing the TT into the research as a starting-point for analysis and not only as a point of reference regarding the ST, the perspective of the research is broadened, an approach that is excellently suited for the cultural and comparative viewpoint we will use in this paper. In other words, we will not look at metaphor translation as "a question of the individual metaphorical expression" but as features of both SL and TL that are "linked to the level of conceptual systems in source and target culture" (Schäffner 2004(Schäffner : 1258. For the purpose of our analysis, we will use the abbreviations T1, T2, …, T6 in our paper to refer to the six categories defined by Toury for metaphor translation, with T1 referring to "metaphor into same metaphor", T2 to "metaphor into different metaphor", etc.…”

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Foreignization in News Translation: Metaphors in Russian Translation on the News Translation Website InoSMI

Poucke

Belikova

2016

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RÉSUMÉL'emploi métaphorique est récurrent dans les textes à caractère journalistique. Cet article étudie la façon dont les traductions russes de textes originaux traitent les expressions métaphoriques et vise à circonscrire les stratégies traductives utilisées. Dans une première phase a été constitué un double corpus fait de 60 articles originaux écrits en anglais, néerlandais ou finnois accompagnés de leur traduction russe. La comparaison des métaphores identifiées dans les textes sources avec leurs équivalents russes permet ensuite de déterminer dans quelle mesure certaines images acquièrent dans le texte cible un degré d'étrangeté absent dans le texte original. La dernière phase de l'enquête procède à l'analyse des cas exotisants afin de préciser la motivation qui explique le recours à cette stratégie traductive. L'article montre comment, dans un certain nombre de contextes spécifiques, le procédé de l'exotisation garde en effet la trace de points de vue occidentaux sur des sujets concernant la Russie, plus particulièrement lorsque les métaphores des textes sources font affleurer une interprétation critique de la société russe, de la structure de l'Etat ou de ses dirigeants. ABSTRACTJournalistic texts, as a rule, contain a considerable number of metaphorically used expressions. This paper investigates the handling of metaphors in Russian translations of journalistic texts in order to reveal the different translation strategies used by the translators. The research is conducted in three consecutive steps. First, we identify all metaphors in a twofold corpus of 60 original Dutch, English and Finnish newspaper articles on the one hand, and their corresponding 60 translations into Russian on the other. Secondly, we compare the use of metaphors in the translations with their source texts in order to establish the translation strategies and to determine to which extent the metaphorical expressions in the target texts display a higher degree of foreignness than those used in the source texts. Finally, we analyze the cases of foreignization in the target texts in order to find an explanation for the use of this translation strategy. The investigation shows how foreignization is adopted by the translators in a certain number of specific contexts, making the Western discourse on Russian subjects more visible to the reader, especially in these cases where the source text contains metaphors that suggest a critical interpretation of the Russian state, society or the leader of the country. MOTS-CLÉS/KEYWORDStraduction journalistique, métaphore, russe, exotisation, InoSMI. news translation, metaphor, Russian, foreignization, InoSMI. IntroductionThis paper aims to investigate how metaphorically used expressions are translated from Dutch, English and Finnish into Russian. Since metaphors shape an important part of everyday life and are constantly present in our conscience, thought processes and culture, their handling in translation is one of the major translation problems to be studied. Different cultures may, on the one han...

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“…The studies conducted by Hiraga (1991), Mandelblit (1995), Schäffner (2004), Kovecses (2005), Al-Zoubi (2006), Al-Hasnawi (2007), Maalej (2008) and Iranmanesh and Kaur (2010) have viewed metaphor translation from a cognitive linguistic perspective through addressing either one or more aspects. These studies distinguished between similar mapping condition (SMC) and the different mapping condition (DMC) in the sense that the source language (SL) and the target language (TL) in the SMC case used the identical metaphor to conceptualize a particular notion while both SL and TL conceptualize a particular notion using a different metaphor in the DMC case.…”

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

Safarnejad¹,

Abdullah²,

Awal³

2014

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Metaphorical expressions often involve culturally-specific concepts, embodying associations related to a particular cultural community. Metaphor translation poses the problems of switching between different cultural references, as well as conceptual and linguistic perspectives. Dealing with metaphors in translation, thus, is not simply a matter of identifying the linguistic correspondences in two languages under study, but of identifying correspondences between their conceptual systems corresponding to their different cultural models. The main purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a study that investigated emotive metaphoric conceptualizations and their dominant patterns in Persian and English. The emotions under study are metaphorical expressions of happiness and sadness which have been compiled from a literary source text and its two corresponding target texts. The Metaphor Identification Procedures (MIP), proposed by the Pragglejazz group (2007), and Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) were adopted as the framework for analysis. Our findings revealed that there are many cultural similarities and differences between emotive metaphorical concepts in Persian and English.

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Metaphor and translation: some implications of a cognitive approach

Cited by 210 publications

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Metaphors and Translation Prisms

Metaphors and Translation Prisms

Foreignization in News Translation: Metaphors in Russian Translation on the News Translation Website InoSMI

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

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