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Text and Wine: Approaches from terminology and translation
Edited by M. del Carmen Balbuena Torezano and Manuela Álvarez Jurado
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 38] 2023
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Terminological metaphors in red wine tasting notes

A corpus-based study applied to wine translation (French-Spanish)

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In this chapter, it will be addressed the existence of conceptual metaphors around which red wine tasting discourse is articulated in French and Spanish. In addition, the role of terminological metaphor in this specialized discourse will be considered. To this end, a descriptive and comparative analysis of tasting notes will be carried out, in order to find the underlying conceptual metaphors and their manifestations in different metaphorical expressions. Therefore, a linguistic and a translatological analysis of the metaphorical vocabulary used in winespeak will be addressed to determine whether these words could be considered specialized terms and the main challenges for their translation.

Keywords: conceptual metaphors, red wine, terminological metaphors, terminology, wine discourse, wine translation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Considerations about conceptual and terminological metaphor in wine tasting discourse
  • 3.Metaphor in red wine tasting discourse and its translation (French-Spanish)
    • 3.1Methodology and design criteria of the textual corpus
    • 3.2Terminological metaphor in red wine tasting in French
      • 3.2.1Le vin est un être vivant
      • 3.2.2Le vin est un objet
    • 3.3Terminological metaphor in red wine tasting in Spanish
      • 3.3.1El vino es un ser vivo
      • 3.3.2El vino es un objeto
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Bibliographical references
  • Appendix
Published online: 23 November 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.38.07jan
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