In Search of Expressive Equivalence (Based on Translation of Barack Obama’s Autobiography “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” into Latvian)
Journal Title: Caietele „Lucian Blaga” - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
The article is devoted to the issue of preserving the expressive power of metaphor in translation of literary texts into Latvian. The author conducts a comparative stylistic analysis the metaphors used to describe the characters of the parents in Barack Obama’s autobiography “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” and its Latvian translation.
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Olga Romanova
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