Translation Strategies of Metaphorical Idioms in Political Discourse

DOI

10.2991/sschd-16.2016.87How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese idioms, Vehicle Culture image, Translation strategy.

Abstract

Chinese idioms include set phrases, proverbs, colloquial and two-part allegorical saying which derived from fixed phrases and short sentences in long-term use. The remarks and speeches of Chinese new term of leadership tend to use more common and understandable colloquial language close to daily life. By borrowing household image, the metaphor not only manifests the unique Chinese cultural connotation but enhances language expressiveness. Therefore how to translate well the two main components of metaphorical Chinese idioms into English—vehicle and culture image and transmit exact meaning of in-depth culture becomes important in political discourse. In order to deal with such translation problem, neither literal nor liberal translation should be directly used. The paper discusses how to mix translation strategies on demand by different examples from current political remarks and speeches.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hua Li
AU  - Yi Bian
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - Translation Strategies of Metaphorical Idioms in Political Discourse
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 427
EP  - 431
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-16.2016.87
DO  - 10.2991/sschd-16.2016.87
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