Translatability of Metaphors: Contrasting German Editions Of Things Fall Apart, (das Alte stürzt) And The Famished Road,(die hungrige Strasse) - Couverture souple

Ifesieh, Emeka Chiegboka C.

 
9783659432927: Translatability of Metaphors: Contrasting German Editions Of Things Fall Apart, (das Alte stürzt) And The Famished Road,(die hungrige Strasse)
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ISBN 10 : 365943292X ISBN 13 : 9783659432927
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

This book contrastively analyses metaphorical expressions in the English and German versions of Things Fall Apart (TFA), das Alte stürzt (dAs) by Chinua Achebe and The Famished Road (TFR), die hungrige Strasse (dhS) by Ben Okri with a view to explicating the untranslatability features in the selected texts. The study employs Skopos and Black’s interaction theories to account for the adequacy or otherwise of the translations and the metaphoric imagery in the texts respectively. Then, Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual theory of meaning account for ideological underpinnings and meanings of texts respectively. Forty six socioculturally grounded metaphors (30 from TFA; 16 from TFR), which have untranslatability slants have been purposively sampled from the two texts, and subjected to contrastive analysis using the Hallidayan systemic functional grammar as a linguistic framework. Findings show that metaphorical and semantic use variations together with inexactitude of lexical replacements are the causes of untranslatabilities in both dAs and dhS.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book contrastively analyses metaphorical expressions in the English and German versions of Things Fall Apart (TFA), das Alte stürzt (dAs) by Chinua Achebe and The Famished Road (TFR), die hungrige Strasse (dhS) by Ben Okri with a view to explicating the untranslatability features in the selected texts. The study employs Skopos and Black’s interaction theories to account for the adequacy or otherwise of the translations and the metaphoric imagery in the texts respectively. Then, Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual theory of meaning account for ideological underpinnings and meanings of texts respectively. Forty six socioculturally grounded metaphors (30 from TFA; 16 from TFR), which have untranslatability slants have been purposively sampled from the two texts, and subjected to contrastive analysis using the Hallidayan systemic functional grammar as a linguistic framework. Findings show that metaphorical and semantic use variations together with inexactitude of lexical replacements are the causes of untranslatabilities in both dAs and dhS.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Emeka C. Ifesieh teaches Applied Linguistics and German in the Department of Languages and Linguistics, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. He has a National Certificate of Education: English and Integrated Science, ZDf and ZMP: German, B.A.: German, M.A.: Translation (German), M.A.: Linguistics and Ph.D: Linguistics.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
365943292X
ISBN 13 
9783659432927
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
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