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Dagut, Menachem

doi:10.1075/babel.33.2.06dag

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“…However, it is justifiable to think that for translating a metaphor, a translator faces problems with the rules meant for metaphor translation that do not take into account cultural experience and semantic association. It would, therefore, be suggested that Dagut's (1987) argument is relevant to the present study because it supports the problem statement of the study that problems of translating metaphors do exist because they are not governed by any rule, and that there are no rules for translating metaphors.…”

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confidence: 67%

Cultural Basis of Metaphors Translation: Case of Emotions in Persian and English

Safarnejad¹,

Abdullah²,

Awal³

2014

ASS

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Metaphorical expressions often involve culturally-specific concepts, embodying associations related to a particular cultural community. Metaphor translation poses the problems of switching between different cultural references, as well as conceptual and linguistic perspectives. Dealing with metaphors in translation, thus, is not simply a matter of identifying the linguistic correspondences in two languages under study, but of identifying correspondences between their conceptual systems corresponding to their different cultural models. The main purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a study that investigated emotive metaphoric conceptualizations and their dominant patterns in Persian and English. The emotions under study are metaphorical expressions of happiness and sadness which have been compiled from a literary source text and its two corresponding target texts. The Metaphor Identification Procedures (MIP), proposed by the Pragglejazz group (2007), and Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) were adopted as the framework for analysis. Our findings revealed that there are many cultural similarities and differences between emotive metaphorical concepts in Persian and English.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 67%

Cultural Basis of Metaphors Translation: Case of Emotions in Persian and English

Safarnejad¹,

Abdullah²,

Awal³

2014

ASS

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“…They tackle with metaphor as an independent case regardless of its context (Monti, 2006). Dagut (1987) claims that it is not possible to find an equivalent translation for metaphor in another language since it is an imaginative, mental issue.…”

Section: Strategies For Translating Metaphormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Depending on the previous idea, Dagut (1987) infers that the translation of metaphor is a re-creation work that requires a skilful, creative translator to recreate or re-form metaphors which should be linguistically and culturally acceptable within the TL. Nonetheless, he does not negotiate any strategy of rendering metaphors.…”

Section: Strategies For Translating Metaphormentioning

confidence: 99%

The Translatability of Metaphor in Eliot’s The Waste Land: A Comparative Approach

Ayassrah¹,

Azmi²

2019

ELLS

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There is an obvious gap in studying the translatability of metaphor in modern English poetry, particularly in Eliot’s The Waste Land. Furthermore, it is observed that most previous studies about metaphor are in and for English, and only few ones have tackled the translatability of metaphor into another language. However, the current study aims to explore this phenomenon in Eliot’s The Waste Land and three of its Arabic translations. All metaphors of The Waste Land and its three translations are identified, studied and classified into juxtaposed tables to facilitate the comparative process. Then, an assessment of each translation is made to be compared to the original text and the other translations. This comparison aims at identifying the translatability of metaphor in The Waste Land, the most and least used strategy and how the three translators have dealt with the original text. The study also shows that the three translators could translate most of Eliot’s metaphors into Arabic analogous metaphors; Lu’lu’ah uses this strategy the most and Raghib the least. Furthermore, the strategy of paraphrasing the metaphor is used more than the second one (11 cases). Finally, this study suggests three recommendations for further upcoming studies. The first one is: Conducting a comparative study on using metaphor in the spoken languages or dialects of two different societies (the Jordanian and British, for instance). The second is: Exploring this phenomenon in students’ everyday language; and the third is: Investigating the ability of English language students in rendering metaphor from English into Arabic.

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“…In the non-cognitive tradition, many claim that in the translation of metaphor, culture should be regarded as center of focus (Nida 1964;Catford 1965;Dagut 1987;Mason 1982;Snell-Hornby 1995;Quinn 1991). As different cultures conceptualize experience in different ways, metaphor is a culture-specific phenomenon.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Translation of Personification and Suspension of Disbelief

Shahabi

Roberto

2015

IJCLTS

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This study calls the translators´ attention to animal personification in texts where in some cases the image of the animal is not only different from or contradictory to those in the target language but also different from or contradictory to those in the source text. The proposed translation strategies in this study are based on the specificity of the situations. The translator must reflect on three factors: a) the features of the animal in the source text, b) the image of that animal in the source language, and also c) its image in the target language. However, in this study, we conclude that the burden is put on the readers, rather than on the author or translators. They make use of the reader´s willing suspension of disbelief which helps them in encountering breakdown in established conventions and norms, to "suspend" their disbelief about odd or eccentric entities and concepts.

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More About the Translatability of Metaphor

Cited by 53 publications

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Cultural Basis of Metaphors Translation: Case of Emotions in Persian and English

Cultural Basis of Metaphors Translation: Case of Emotions in Persian and English

The Translatability of Metaphor in Eliot’s The Waste Land: A Comparative Approach

Translation of Personification and Suspension of Disbelief

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