Denroche, C. 2019. Employing cognitive metonymy theory in the analysis of semantic relations between source and target text in translation. Metaphor and the Social World. 9 (2), pp. 177-198. https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.18024.der
| Title | Employing cognitive metonymy theory in the analysis of semantic relations between source and target text in translation |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Denroche, C. |
| Abstract | This article offers a model of translation which frames semantic relations between source- and target-text elements in terms of metonymy, and translation in terms of metonymic processing. Translators/interpreters constantly use approximations rather than exact one-to-one correspondences in their work, as meaning making is by nature partial and built-in matches between language systems do not exist. Approximation is identified as a recurrent theme in Translation Studies, while Metonymy Studies is seen as providing a toolkit for describing in detail the approximate semantic relations between source- and target-text elements. Models from Metonymy Studies are applied to two translation case studies and a translation revision case study. An original typology of metonymic relations is proposed based on whether or not source and target are encoded linguistically as vehicle and/or topic. It is concluded that the semantic relations between source- and target-text elements in translation are distinctive in two respects: 1) they are characterized by facetization and zone activation rather than metonymization; 2) they are examples of Topic metonymy (both source and target concepts are encoded) and Code-switching metonymy (the source and target concepts are encoded in different languages). |
| Keywords | metonymy, translation, facetization, zone activation, contiguity, indeterminacy, metonymic processing, metonymic shift |
| Journal | Metaphor and the Social World |
| Journal citation | 9 (2), pp. 177-198 |
| ISSN | 2210-4070 |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.18024.der |
| Web address (URL) | https://benjamins.com/catalog/msw.18024.der |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 05 Nov 2019 |