Learner translation of metaphor

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI:10.1075/msw.00016.nac

Susan Nacey, Siri Fürst Skogmo

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article explores metaphor translation strategies of novice translators: university students translating from L1 Norwegian to L2 English. We first describe the translation strategies they employ in their translated texts, thereby offering evidence of what translators do with metaphor based on multiple translations of the same metaphor-dense source text. We then go beyond this descriptive analysis to discuss why these translators make their particular choices, analyzing the students’ in-class discussion and individual written reflections about their translations. We thus illuminate the challenges that the novice translators consciously perceive (that is, is metaphor a problem?), as well as their motivation for and evaluation of their translation solutions. In this way, we shed light on the concept of the ‘successful’ translation of metaphor.

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隐喻的学习者翻译

本文探讨了新手译者的隐喻翻译策略：大学生从一级挪威语翻译成二级英语。我们首先描述了他们在翻译文本中使用的翻译策略，从而在对同一隐喻密集源文本进行多次翻译的基础上，为译者如何处理隐喻提供了证据。然后，我们超越了这种描述性分析，讨论了这些译者为什么会做出特殊的选择，分析了学生们在课堂上的讨论和对他们翻译的个人书面反思。因此，我们阐明了新手译者有意识地感知到的挑战（即隐喻是一个问题吗？），以及他们对翻译解决方案的动机和评价。通过这种方式，我们揭示了隐喻“成功”翻译的概念。

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来源期刊

Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

11.10%

发文量

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.