Peter Newmark's Translation Procedures as Applied to Metaphors of Literary Texts (Based on Stephen King's Works)
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-1-278-287
Abstract
The present research featured P. Newmark's translation strategy and procedures applied to the translation of metaphors in literary texts, namely Stephen King's oeuvre. The study revealed the effect of functional style on metaphor translation. The type of metaphor, e.g. dead, cliché, stock, adapted, recent, and original, also proved important for adequate translation. The authors performed a comparative and correlative analysis of metaphors in translations made by different authors. The study was based on descriptive, cognitive, semantic, and lexicographic methods. The general functional analysis revealed grammar and lexical transformations that metaphors undergo in the process of application of P. Newmark's translation strategy and procedures. The article focuses on the optimal ways of metaphor translation as described by P. Newmark. The translator can preserve the original image in the translated text, keep the original metaphor, replace the original image with a common one, render the metaphor using a figurative comparison while preserving the original image and notion explication, ignore the notion explication of the metaphor, or totally remove the image. The analysis proved the significance of P. Newmark's approach to metaphor translation and its methodological value for modern translation theory and practice. The results obtained can be applied both in professional translation and in corresponding disciplines.
About the Authors
D. V. Shalimova
Kemerovo State University
Russian Federation
Kemerovo
Russian Federation
Kemerovo
I. V. Shalimova
JSC Polymetal Management Company
Russian Federation
St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
St. Petersburg
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Shalimova D.V., Shalimova I.V. Peter Newmark's Translation Procedures as Applied to Metaphors of Literary Texts (Based on Stephen King's Works). The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2020;22(1):278-287. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-1-278-287
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