Sökning: "conceptual metonymy"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden conceptual metonymy.
1. Translating Metaphors An Analysis of the Translation of Conceptual Metaphors from English to Swedish in an Academic Text
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This essay investigates the author’s translation of a non-fiction text about literary theory. The study examines the metaphors found in the original text and how they have been translated from English to Swedish. The analysis uses Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) description of conceptual metaphors to categorize the metaphors found in the text. LÄS MER
2. Translating metaphors : an English to Swedish translation analysis based on conceptual metaphor theory
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This paper analyzes the author’s own translation of a metaphor dense non-fiction text and investigates how metaphors have been translated from English to Swedish. The analysis mainly draws on Schäffner’s 2004 study that views metaphors on two levels, micro and macro, and Newmark’s 1981 prescriptive framework. LÄS MER
3. Metaphorical mountainscapes : Translating metaphors, similes and metonymy in an adventure travel guide
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This study examines the translation of an adventure travel guide from English to Swedish, focusing on the translation of conventional metaphors, original metaphors, metonymy and similes, with special attention to conceptual metaphors. The results show that most of the metaphors are reproduced in the target text, along with most of the metonymic segments and all similes. LÄS MER
4. Describing Sound : Translating Metaphors in Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : 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). LÄS MER
5. Metaphor and Metonymy Related to the Concept of Anger in the Television Series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : This study explores uses of metaphor and metonymy related to the concept of anger in the American television series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 2012. The theoretical framework of the study is Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The data consists of metaphors and metonymies in the verbal and the pictorial mode. LÄS MER
