Is Translation Always Transfer? Challenging the Dominant Conceptual Metaphor in African Bible Translation Training

Q1 Arts and Humanities
Uloma Wabara
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This paper considers the conceptualization of translation in Katharine Barnwell’s Bible Translation: An Introductory Course in Translation Principles, a popular textbook for Bible translation training programs in Africa. The recurring conceptual metaphors in this text are identified, and the metaphor TRANSLATION IS TRANSFER is analyzed. This research stems from the need to develop African Bible translators who conceptualize translation using concepts (metaphors) in their languages that are indicative of what activity they embark on in translation work. Reading through some of the training materials in use on the continent (specifically Anglophone), there seem to be relatively few that have explored the conceptual tools used by indigenous Africans to think and talk about translation. There is thus a need to investigate the conceptual metaphors used by Africans in their various cultures to conceptualize translation. The implications of this research appeal to trainers of translators to rethink not just the methodological approach to Bible translation programs in Africa but also the contents of course materials.
翻译总是传递吗?挑战非洲圣经翻译训练中占主导地位的概念隐喻
本文考察了凯瑟琳·巴恩韦尔的《圣经翻译:翻译原则入门课程》中翻译的概念,这是非洲圣经翻译培训项目的热门教材。对文中反复出现的概念隐喻进行了识别,并对隐喻的翻译即迁移进行了分析。这项研究源于培养非洲圣经译者的需要,他们使用自己语言中的概念(隐喻)来概念化翻译,这些概念(隐喻)表明他们在翻译工作中从事的活动。纵观非洲大陆(特别是英语国家)使用的一些培训材料,似乎很少有人探讨非洲土著用来思考和谈论翻译的概念工具。因此,有必要研究非洲人在其不同文化中使用的概念隐喻,以概念化翻译。这项研究的意义呼吁翻译培训师不仅要重新思考非洲圣经翻译项目的方法方法,还要重新思考课程材料的内容。
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SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation
SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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