A Cultural Study on Metaphor Translation |
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| Author:
| Li, Quanfu |
| ISBN: | 978-1-63181-775-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Publisher: | American Academic Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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A Cultural Study on Metaphor Translation deals with the nature of metaphor and metaphor translation from the perspective of the Cultural Turn as its theoretical framework so as to explore and address such issues as the relations among culture, metaphor, and the impact of cultural factors on metaphor. Since metaphor translation has not been given due attention, the book reviews the history of metaphor studies in the West, outlines the theoretical framework, displays the previous studies...
More DescriptionA Cultural Study on Metaphor Translation deals with the nature of metaphor and metaphor translation from the perspective of the Cultural Turn as its theoretical framework so as to explore and address such issues as the relations among culture, metaphor, and the impact of cultural factors on metaphor. Since metaphor translation has not been given due attention, the book reviews the history of metaphor studies in the West, outlines the theoretical framework, displays the previous studies on metaphor translation, and focuses on the nature of metaphor and the Cultural Turn in translation studies. The book has a detailed interpretation of the culture models in metaphors translation. With the focus on providing useful methods for metaphor translation from the cultural perspective, the significance of the book is that the strategies of foreignization and domestication are employed to guide the metaphor translation; and a lot of translation examples cited from the Chinese culture serve as the case studies in this book.