Essays about: "structural metaphors"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words structural metaphors.
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1. The language of vision in four Aslian speech communities : an introductory investigation of basic vision verbs
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : Vision is often considered to top the hierarchy of the senses, reflected for example in the high relative frequency of vision verbs, in comparison to other perception verbs. Results from some previous studies, however, have shown that there is greater cross-linguistic variation concerning perception language than previously thought, emphasising other sense modalities than vision. READ MORE
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2. Describing Sound : Translating Metaphors in Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Focusing on a source text of music journalism, this study sets out to investigate the role of metaphors in translation techniques from English to Swedish. The study turns to the conceptual metaphor, as presented by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980), and considers a range of translation strategies prescribed by scholars such as Christina Schäffner (2004, 2012) and Grace Crerar-Bromelow (2007). READ MORE
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3. Building a Balanced Organizational Culture – Imagery in Corporate Storytelling : Metaphors and Translation
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study investigates the use of metaphors in corporate storytelling and the strategies that may be applied when translating these from English to Swedish. The conceptual metaphor theory was used as a starting point for the investigation of structural metaphors in particular. READ MORE
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4. Walking and Wandering among Mountains and Monsters : A study of metaphors and lexical variation in translation in a text about the Lake District
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay studies the translation of metaphorical concepts and lexical variation in relation to walking in a text about hiking in the Lake District. These two linguistic features are deemed to be important in fulfilling the communicative intention of the source text and the aim of the essay is to investigate to what extent these two linguistic features have been retained translation and what motivates different translation strategies. READ MORE
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5. In other words : Metaphorical concepts in translation
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : Awareness of metaphors brings awareness to how language is structured in a text. This study, based on Lakoff & Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors, will discuss the different types of metaphorical concepts found in the source text and target text during the translation of two articles by the author Mohsin Hamid. READ MORE
