Metaphor and Translation Strategies in News English

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.

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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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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Management, Education, Information and Control (MEICI 2016)
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