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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 uppsatser innehållade orden metaphor 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. Change in the Meaning of the Word Cool : A study comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierSammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to study change in the meaning of the word cool, comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s. Examples where the word cool was used were obtained from the Corpus of Historical American English, which is created by Mark Davies, and analyzed in terms of in which senses and text types they were used. LÄS MER
3. 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
4. How to analyze identification in storytelling?
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Retorik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapSammanfattning : This thesis examines the use of storytelling in advertising from a rhetorical perspective. Specifically, stories told in IKEA’s recent advertising campaign Där livet händer (Where life happens) will be analyzed. The purpose is to propose a way in which to analyze identification in storytelling. LÄS MER
5. Lost (and found) in translation : A study of the translation of metaphors and metonymies in a Scottish travel guide
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : During the last few decades, the translation of metaphors has been a popular focus for examination. Seemingly, the challenges that metaphors and metonymies pose have urged several scholars to compile sets of translation strategies in order to meet them or at least attempt to describe how they tend to be met. LÄS MER
