Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Social Science Research

The Contrastive Study and Translation Strategies on Conceptual Metaphor in Chinese and English Political Discourses

Authors
Lin Zu, Xiaokun Zhai
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Lin Zu
Available Online July 2014.
DOI
10.2991/icassr-14.2014.21How to use a DOI?
Keywords
contrastive analysis, translation strategies, conceptual metaphor theory, political discourses
Abstract

This thesis is intended to make a contrastive analysis with regard to the use of metaphors the public speeches at foreign university made by the American politicians and by the Chinese politicians with the guidance of Layoff’s conceptual metaphor theory so as to find out the similarities and differences in metaphors in Chinese and English political discourses. The ultimate purpose of this thesis is to put forward some strategies, which will benefit future metaphor translation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
July 2014
ISBN
978-94-62520-24-0
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icassr-14.2014.21How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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