Translation of Metaphor: The Dilemma of Conceptualisation
Journal Title: In Translation / في الترجمة - Year 2019, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Any translation is subject to mental processing. In a literary text, this processing is very problematic. Words and expressions that vehicle such transfer do not (re)produce the source faithfully. The received image could be perceived and conceived differently because of language suggestiveness. Undoubtedly, Cognitive Process of thinking is helpful in understanding and actualizing thoughts into words and expressions. But how could it be with metaphor? Is it transferrable? Are we able to reproduce and transfer the same image from the source to the target? Metaphor is shaped and mapped within the culture that produces it, but differences in culture become the clue of the problem. The way to conceptualise and perceive is dialogically related to the degree of differences and similarities of the SLT (Source Language Text) and TLT (Target Language Text).
Authors and Affiliations
Salah BOUREGBI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP713407
- DOI -
- Views 75
- Downloads 0
The Human Memory Activity and its Role in Translation
The aim of this research paper is to discuss the human memory activity and its role in translation. Translation, nowadays, is not regarded as a mere transfer of knowledge, scientific or literary, and a simple transfere...
A Kaleidoscopic View on Narrative Instance in Translation
This article tends to speculate on the importance of narrative instances sealing literary discourse with the translation enterprise. Its necessity lies in the consideration that translators are invited to define the ex...
The Role of Emojis and Emoticons in Enhancing Interpersonal Communication through Messenger and WhatsApp Applications
Communication process is not only speaking or writing words. It is very a complex matter that requires factors affective such as language, grammar, experience and nonverbal elements. Sign language and facial expressions...
Hermeneutics and the Text Translation: Interpretability, Probability, Impossibility
The original and the new translated texts are not similar; yet the second is the by-product of the first. The translator manipulates the first so that he gives birth to the second. But does the second contain the same...
Transferring Ironic Folk Proverbs in Fiction from Arabic to French: Translation Procedures in Focus
The ironic folk proverb is characterized by stylistic and semantic features. It is marked by shortness, eloquence, and ironic style, using colloquial and metaphors to impact the addressee. These characteristics pose a...