Employing cognitive metonymy theory in the analysis of semantic relations between source and target text in translation

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2019-11-05 DOI:10.1075/MSW.18024.DER

C. Denroche

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Abstract

This article offers a model of translation which frames semantic relations between source- and target-text elements in terms of metonymy, and translation in terms of metonymic processing. Translators/interpreters constantly use approximations rather than exact one-to-one correspondences in their work, as meaning making is by nature partial and built-in matches between language systems do not exist. Approximation is identified as a recurrent theme in Translation Studies, while Metonymy Studies is seen as providing a toolkit for describing in detail the approximate semantic relations between source- and target-text elements. Models from Metonymy Studies are applied to two translation case studies and a translation revision case study. An original typology of metonymic relations is proposed based on whether or not source and target are encoded linguistically as vehicle and topic respectively. It is concluded that the semantic relations between source- and target-text elements in translation are distinctive in two respects: (1) they are characterized by facetization and zone activation rather than metonymization; (2) they are examples of Topic metonymy (both source and target concepts are encoded) and Code-switching metonymy (the source and target concepts are encoded in different languages).

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运用认知转喻理论分析翻译中源语与译文的语义关系

本文提出了一个翻译模型，从转喻的角度构建源语篇和目的语篇元素之间的语义关系，从转喻加工的角度构建翻译。译者/口译员在工作中经常使用近似，而不是精确的一对一对应，因为意义的形成本质上是部分的，语言系统之间不存在内在的匹配。近似被认为是翻译研究中的一个反复出现的主题，而转喻研究则被视为提供了一个工具包来详细描述源文本和目标文本元素之间的近似语义关系。将转喻研究的模型应用于两个翻译案例研究和一个翻译修订案例研究。基于源和目的是否分别被语言学编码为载体和主题，提出了转喻关系的原始类型学。研究表明，翻译中源语篇和目的语篇元素之间的语义关系在两个方面是不同的：（1）它们的特征是面孔化和区域激活，而不是转喻；（2）它们是主题转喻（源概念和目标概念都被编码）和代码转换转喻（源和目标概念用不同的语言编码）的例子。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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2.20

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.