Translation as Metaphor

Guldin, Rainer

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“…In the case of metaphor translation, which is an act of recreating the original rather than just echoing it (Guldin 2016), translators should consider the fact that the metaphors were created in different contexts. But do translators aim to adhere to the context of the source language or to the new one (Alshniet 2019: 75)?…”

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Translating perception metaphors: Linguistic, cultural and social implications

Kalda

2022

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Explaining the process of translation has become a challenging aim for different research fields. Rather than just relying on the analysis of translated texts, it is vital to analyse the process of translation: what are the reasons behind the translator’s choices and what are the factors that influence the process? This article uses data from three experiments involving a total of 102 participants, who were asked to translate English perception metaphors into Estonian. The empirical results indicate that there are different factors that either hinder or enable translation. Most importantly, context supports the translating of both cross-cultural and culture-specific metaphors. Also, previous translation experience helps participants deal with metaphoric language. Another salient factor was living in an English-speaking country: participants with such experience found it less challenging to translate metaphoric language even if the metaphors were novel. Finally, educational background in translating facilitates the translation of metaphors

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Section: Cultural Issues Related To Perception Metaphor Translationmentioning

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Translating perception metaphors: Linguistic, cultural and social implications

Kalda

2022

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“…In the spring of 2015, I was working on a book about the metaphor of translation (Guldin 2016) for the Routledge series Translation Theories Explored edited by Theo Hermans, who was also my very first reader. In an initial draft of the introduction, I pointed to the questionable side of metaphors, their tendency to proliferate 1 and to obscure the object they are supposed to describe.…”

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“…The examples of molecular genetics and translational medicine on the one hand, and postcolonial studies and Freudian psychoanalysis on the other, show that understanding what a translation actually is can vary greatly from discipline to discipline and that these different readings of the notion can be at odds with each other. The spectrum extends from translation as a form of transcriptive replication (genetics) to translation as a transformative power (postcolonial studies) (Guldin 2016). These processes of borrowing and appropriation do not simply drain translation of its meaning; they also recast it in new terms.…”

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Unsettling Translation

Baker¹

2022

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This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans's scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of the positioning of the translator and of translation itself as a social and hermeneutic practice. Those he has mentored or inspired through his lectures and pioneering publications over the years are now household names in the field, with many represented in this volume. They come together here both to critically re-examine translation as a social, political and conceptual site of negotiation and to celebrate his contributions to the field.The volume opens with an extended introduction and personal tribute by the editor, which situates Hermans's work within the broader development of critical thinking about translation from the 1970s onward. This is followed by five parts, each addressing a theme that has been broadly taken up by Theo Hermans in his own work: translational epistemologies; historicizing translation; performing translation; centres and peripheries; and digital encounters.This is important reading for translation scholars, researchers and advanced students on courses covering key trends and theories in translation studies, and those engaging with the history of the discipline.The rather smooth, unruffled picture of translation that I have just painted has an 'other' to it, a more unsettling but also a much more interesting and intriguing side. The smooth, unruffled picture may be part of the conventional perception and self-presentation of translation, but it papers over the cracks. I want to try and poke my finger into at least some of these cracks. And the reason for doing so lies in the recognition that translation, for all its presumed secondariness, derives its force from the fact that it is still our only answer to, and our only escape from, Babel.

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“…The concept of cultural translation was used in cultural studies as a synonym of diaspora, dislocation, and migration, which only shifts the meaning of the word "translation" away from its prototypical centre, which is essential to linguistic approaches to translation (see Wolf 2012: 50). The fact that the metaphor of translatio is ubiquitous in areas as different as psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, medicine, genetics, and IT, which was aptly pointed out by the Swiss literary and cultural scholar Rainer Guldin (2016), shows that translatio is but a metaphor even for translation studies and textual analysis. All these disciplines harness the metaphorical potential of the word translatio, which is inherent in its Latin etymology: they describe intellectual, natural, and technical phenomena and processes that involve the simultaneous transfer and transformation of content in space (real or virtual).…”

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Translatio and Memory as Cultural Metaphors. Analogies, Touch Points, and Interactions

Lukas¹

2019

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The article discusses the interpretative and methodological potential inherent in the synergetic application of two categories paradigmatic for cultural studies and cultural literary theory: translatio and memory. It is argued that both categories, viewed as cultural metaphors and combined with each other, may serve as a complex model for the interpretation of cultural phenomena. The starting point for developing such a model is the insight that both concepts have undergone a similar semantic evolution in the discourse of cultural studies, and may now be represented as radial categories with a "prototypical centre" and metaphorical-metonymical extensions, translatio going far beyond interlingual "translation proper". Next, some further contact zones between translatio and memory are outlined: firstly, their functional analogies, which are reflected in parallel metaphors depicting memory and translation (such as the "palimpsest" and the "devouring of the Other"). Secondly, the metaphor of the "dissemination of memes" is discussed as the most promising idea that brings together the discourse of translation studies with reflection on the mechanisms of collective memory, drawing attention to ethical and political aspects of both translatio and memory. The image of the "dissemination of memes" is also a point of departure for its derivative metaphors of "translation as memory transmission" and "memory as a space of translatio". The conclusion is that the interactions between memory and translatio that engendered these metaphors could be

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Translation as Metaphor

Cited by 19 publications

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Translating perception metaphors: Linguistic, cultural and social implications

Translating perception metaphors: Linguistic, cultural and social implications

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Translatio and Memory as Cultural Metaphors. Analogies, Touch Points, and Interactions

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