Chapter published in:
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
Edited by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier
[Benjamins Translation Library 142] 2018
► pp. 39–44

Chapter 1.2
Tropes (Metaphor, Metonymy)

Keywords: figurative language, metaphors of translation, translation as metonym, innovative thinking, conceptual metaphors
Article outline
  • 1.The danger of figurative language
  • 2.Figurative language in twenty-first century translation studies
  • References
  • Further reading
Published online: 28 June 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.142.03sta
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Guldin, Rainer
2016 Translation as Metaphor. London/New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
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(ed.) 2010 Thinking Through Translation with Metaphors. Manchester: St. Jerome.Google Scholar