Study of the Translation for Metaphor in Financial English Based on Cognitive Linguistics

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10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.363How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Financial English, Metaphor, Translation

Abstract

With the rapid development of world economy and the booming of China's market, the interflow between countries become increasingly frequent, and market's demand for the talents that have both language ability and financial knowledge become bigger and bigger. Under such international and domestic background, financial English as one communication tool, taking research on how to translate more accurately and how to understand its meaning more thoroughly have important practical significance for people from all walks of life. Metaphor, as one kind of rhetorical device of hiding comparison often appear in financial English, so knowing the use of this technique plays an important role for understanding the financial English. Taking the financial English as the research object, this paper summarizes the current research situation of the translation for metaphor in financial English, besides, according to the analysis of the concluded translation methods and experience by scholars both home and abroad, and also combine with the examples of various financial articles translation, it summarizes the translation techniques for the metaphor part in current financial English translation, how to better apply these skills and several problems that need to be paid attention in the process of translation so that to provide reference value and practical guiding significance for the financial English translation study .

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zhaoying Li
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TI  - Study of the Translation for Metaphor in Financial English Based on Cognitive Linguistics
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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