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A Study on the Metaphorical Translation of Pound’s Book of Songs from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Author(s)

FENG Shi-yun, MA Wen-li

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2021.10.003

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Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

ABSTRACT

The Book of Songs is the first collection of Poems in China, which is a very important milestone in the history of Chinese literature. There are abundant metaphorical expressions in The Book of Songs, providing valuable resources for linguistics, rhetoric and literature research. This study selects the most representative metaphors of women and marriage in The Book of Songs as the research object. Guided by Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory, this study explores the metaphorical translation in Pound’s Book of Songs from the perspective of cognitive effect. It is found that Pound mainly adopts the translation strategies of vehicle equivalence, vehicle conversion and metaphor to simile in the process of translating female metaphors and marriage metaphors in The Book of Songs.

KEYWORDS

English translation of The Book of Songs, metaphor, metaphor translation, cognitive linguistics

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Journal of Literature and Art Studies, October 2021, Vol. 11, No. 10, 742-746

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