An Exploration of Communicative Translation Strategies for Chinese Political Metaphors

DOI

10.2991/icmess-18.2018.348How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Political metaphors; Communicative translation; Ideological influence; Cultural default; Translation strategies

Abstract

This paper analyzes how political metaphors can be manipulated by translators in order to preserve the flavor of source texts as well as achieve intended communicative effects from the perspective of Communicative Translation Theory. Through categorizing metaphors in The Governance of China and taking the influencing factors into account, translation strategies for four quintessential types of metaphors are explored. It argues that translation strategies including domestication, conversion of metaphor to sense, omission as well as combination of literal translation and annotation are practical approaches to retain original flavor as well as obtain intended communicative effects.

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© 2018, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuhong Huang
AU  - Ting Liao
PY  - 2018/06
DA  - 2018/06
TI  - An Exploration of Communicative Translation Strategies for Chinese Political Metaphors
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science (ICMESS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1584
EP  - 1589
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icmess-18.2018.348
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