Translating Metaphtonymy: Exploring Trainee Translators' Translation Approaches and Underlying Factors.

ABSTRACT: Metaphtonymy is identified as a special rhetoric figure that specifies the interaction between metaphor and metonymy and which is pervasive in literary works. How and why do trainee translators translate metaphtonymy? Using task analysis, semi-structured discourse-based interviews, and a questionnaire survey among 30 master of translation and interpreting (MTI) trainee translators, this study investigates their translation approaches adopted when translating the metaphtonymies in Chinese extracted prose and explores the effects of their choices. It is found that they mainly employed three approaches: omission, modification, and retainment, with omission being the most, and retainment the least frequent. The main factors attributing to each approach range from the prominence degrees and cro

SUBMITTER: Jin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8278523 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature