An Analysis of Grammatical Metaphor of Oscar-Winning Film Titles
- DOI
- 10.2991/meici-16.2016.56How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Grammatical metaphor; Nominalization; Film titles; Translation strategies
- Abstract
Grammatical Metaphor is an incongruent expression in realization of meaning on lexical and grammatical level, of which the main form is nominalization. It is divided into ideational metaphor and interpersonal metaphor. By analysis of the titles of thirty American Oscar-winning films, it can be found that nominalization is a common phenomenon. Based on this, the English film titles discussed may enlighten the Chinese film titles translation in cross-cultural communication and nominalization should be a tendency of expression form when translating Chinese film titles into English, in order to convey information of them more concisely and efficiently.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Z'henghua Tan AU - Yiting Wu PY - 2016/09 DA - 2016/09 TI - An Analysis of Grammatical Metaphor of Oscar-Winning Film Titles BT - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 264 EP - 269 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/meici-16.2016.56 DO - 10.2991/meici-16.2016.56 ID - Tan2016/09 ER -