Cognitive Approach to Metaphor Translation in Literary Discourse

The discourse dynamics approach to metaphor and metaphor- led discourse analysis

The use of metaphor as a tool to uncover people’s ideas, attitudes and values through analysis of discourse is demonstrated and illustrated with data collected in a social science research project. A “discourse dynamics” approach to metaphor situated within a complexity / dynamic systems perspective is developed. This approach is turned into a method of “metaphor-led discourse analysis” which i...

Obstacles To Literary Translation: Challenges and

Metaphor in Discourse

Many have thought that the principles of metaphorical interpretation cannot be formally specified. We’ll attack this position with two claims. Our first claim is that some aspects of metaphor are productive, and this productivity can be captured by perspicuous links between generalisations that are specified in the lexicon, and general purpose circumscriptive reasoning in the pragmatic componen...

Metaphor Detection in Discourse

Understanding contextual information is key to detecting metaphors in discourse. Most current work aims at detecting metaphors given a single sentence, thus focusing mostly on local contextual cues within a short text. In this paper, we present a novel approach that explicitly leverages global context of a discourse to detect metaphors. In addition, we show that syntactic information such as de...

a corpus-hased study of units of translation in english-persian literary translation

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