Metaphor in Literary Translation——A Case Study of Chinese Classics

Guorui Liu

doi:10.24294/ijmss.v6i3.2765

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Metaphor in Literary Translation——A Case Study of Chinese Classics

Guorui Liu

International Journal of Mathematics and Systems Science 2023, 6(3); https://doi.org/10.24294/ijmss.v6i3.2765

Submitted：04 Sept 2023

Accepted：04 Sept 2023

Published：20 Oct 2023

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Abstract

The study of metaphor has a long history, and it has gradually been taken seriously from the very beginning of Aristotle of ancient Greek. In 1980, American scholars George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published the book Metaphor We Lived By jointly, from which metaphor began to be known as a way of cognition. The differences in languages and cultures, together with the complicated working mechanism of metaphor, post a great challenge in translating metaphor in literary work. This paper analyzes example sentences taken from Chinese classical works. By comparing these sentences with their English translations, we can have a glimpse of the translation strategies often used in rendering metaphor.

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