Types of metaphors and their structure

Lievers, Francesca Strik

doi:10.4324/9781003184041-7

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“…The more descriptions, the more productive the mapping. In conventional/dead descriptions, the modifying words (adjectives or adverbs) adapt their meanings to those of the headword shead (nouns and verbs) (Strik-Lievers, 2016, p. 45-46 based on Prandi, 2012. Thus, in the cases of sharp look or say sweetly, the noun and verb keep their meanings, while the adjective and adverb lose their literary meanings referring to the TOUCH and TASTE domains, correspondingly, and acquire figurative meanings that are compatible with the linguistic context.…”

Section: Methodological Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Linguistic synesthesia has been traditionally addressed as a synesthetic metaphor (Cacciari, 2008;O'Malley, 1957;Strik-Lievers, 2016;Yu, 2003;Zhao, 2020). Within the cognitive linguistics framework, it appears to be a specific type of conceptual metaphor, which is a product of conceptual mapping where one conceptual structure (the target domain) is identified in terms of another conceptual structure -usually more directly grounded in bodily experience -(the source domain) (Kövecses, 2002, p. 6;Lakoff, 1999, p. 210).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another argument in favor of regarding linguistic synesthesia as metaphor rather than metonymy is the nature of conceptual conflict behind synesthetic descriptions (Prandi, 2012;Strik-Lievers, 2016). Metonymic conceptual conflict is solved due to the existence of consistent conceptual relations that link conflicting concepts within the same domain.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The third issue concerns the types of metaphors analyzed in translation studies. Most papers, including those mentioned above, have focused on conceptual metaphors, and very few (Strik-Lievers, 2016;Zhulavska, 2019;Ginter, 2019) explored the translation of synesthetic metaphors. Synesthetic metaphors need to be given more attention since, unlike conceptual metaphors that represent abstract concepts in terms of sensory-motor experience, synesthetic metaphors map the sensory-motor experience of one modality in terms of another.…”

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Linguacultural isomorphism / anisomorphism and synesthetic metaphor translation procedures

Zhulavska

Martynyuk

2023

The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Resea

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In this paper, we combine analytical tools of conceptual metaphor theory with the affordances of corpus-based linguistics and quantitative analysis to investigate the translation of synesthetic metaphors found in Donna Tartt’s novels into Ukrainian. A synesthetic metaphor is addressed as a linguistic expression representing a sensation of one modality in terms of another. We claim that the choice of a translation procedure – retention, removal, omission, modification, or addition is partly determined by linguacultural similarity (i.e. isomorphism) or specificity (i.e. anisomorphism) of cross-sensory mappings that underlie the source-text and targettext linguistic expressions and partly – by the translator’s free choice, which cannot be explained by objective reasons. The obtained results show the following trends. Original metaphors as well as conventional metaphors based on isomorphic crosssensory mappings are mostly retained. Conventional metaphors that rest on anisomorphic mappings are mostly modified or removed/omitted. However, the translator can choose to remove/modify a synesthetic metaphor that rests on an isomorphic mapping. Added synesthetic metaphors usually root in isomorphic mappings. The applied methodology minimizes subjectivity of judgment in differentiating between the compulsory (i.e. imposed by the linguacultural specificity) and free strategic choices, which contributes to the potential impact of this research.

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Section: Methodological Designmentioning

confidence: 99%