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The Complexity of Metaphor Translation
The Complexity of Metaphor Translation

A Case Study

Author(s): Loredana Pungă, Marius Golea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Translation Studies
Published by: Editura Politehnica
Keywords: metaphor theories; metaphor translation; techniques of metaphor translation;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a case study of metaphor translation. It focuses on the translation techniques used to render some of the metaphors in Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Grey” into Romanian. The actual case study follows after a brief overview of approaches to metaphor in general and to metaphor translation in particular. The conclusion indicates that there is a diversity of translation techniques that have been used, most of them not based on word-for-word equivalences.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 54-68
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English