开题报告On Translating English Metaphors into Chinese

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1、《学术论文写作》课程考核作业姓名：吴健班级：英语07-02班学号：3107140102291.TitleOnTranslatingEnglishMetaphorsintoChinese2.ThesisStatementMetaphorsarepervasiveinourdailylife.TheyappearnotonlyinvarioustextsbutalsoinspokenEnglish.Peopleusemetaphorsextensivelytoexpresstheirfeelingsandthoughts.Manysubjectswithunivers

2、almeaningsaredescribedbymetaphors.Therefore,weshouldtakeeveryfactorintoconsideration.Intheprocessoftranslation,translatorsshouldfollowtheprincipleandcriteriaoftranslation.ThispaperwillbrieflyintroducetheEnglishmetaphorfirstly,thenwewilldiscusstheprinciplesandmethodsinTranslatingEnglis

3、hMetaphor.3.PurposesandSignificanceofStudyMetaphoriswidelyusedinEnglish.Asweknow,thestudyofmetaphorisrelatedtomanyareasofacademicfield,suchassemantics,pragmatics,aesthetics,etc.ForEnglishlearnersinChina,itisnecessarytounderstandthedifferentformsandintendedmeaningsofEnglishmetaphorsift

4、heywanttohaveabetterunderstandingofEnglishlanguageinuse.MetaphorsinEnglishandChinesemustbearsomesimilarities.Butmetaphorsineachofthelanguagesaredeeplyembeddedinitsparticularculture.Onecannothaveathoroughunderstandingofthemwithoutstudyingtheparticularculturetheyrepresent.Forthesameimag

5、emayhavedifferentmetaphoricalmeaninginEnglishandChinese;sointheprocessoftranslatingEnglishmetaphors,atranslatorshouldfollowcertaintranslationprinciplesandcriteria.4.SituationofStudyI.A.Richards(1978)contendsthatalllanguageandthoughtaremetaphorical,andmetaphoristhe'omnipresentprinciple

6、oflanguage'.Metaphorispervasiveineverydaylife,notjustinlanguagebutalsointhoughtandactionEugeneA.Nida(1969)putforwardhisfunctionaltheory,“FunctionalEquivalence”:theresponseofthereceptorstothetranslatedmessage=theresponseoftheoriginalreceptorstothemessagewhenitwasgiveninitsoriginalsetti

7、ng.PeterNewmark(1966)hasstatedinApproachestoTranslationthatmetaphorisatthecenterofallproblemsoftranslationtheory,semanticsandlinguistics.EspeciallyinEnglish,thereareagreatnumberofmetaphors.Ithadbeensaidthatthree-quartersoftheEnglishlanguageconsistsofmetaphorsTheEnglishRhetoric(Qinghua

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