Metaphor and Translation Strategies in News English
Authors
Hongjuan Li
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Hongjuan Li
Available Online September 2016.
- DOI
- 10.2991/meici-16.2016.69How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- News English; Metaphor; Translation; Skills
- Abstract
As a figure of speech, metaphor is more vivid and flexible than simile, so metaphor can better express the theme in news English and enhance readers' cognition, rendering great help in creating characteristic news release with intense infection. In translating metaphors in news English, in order to retain the original information and accurately convey them to readers, special skills of translating metaphors are needed. This paper first analyzes the application of metaphors in news English and then analyzes and summarizes skills and strategies of translating metaphors.
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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 - Hongjuan Li PY - 2016/09 DA - 2016/09 TI - Metaphor and Translation Strategies in News English BT - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 335 EP - 338 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/meici-16.2016.69 DO - 10.2991/meici-16.2016.69 ID - Li2016/09 ER -