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Publication details [#14361]

Stålhammar, Mall. 2007. Translation and grammatical metaphor. In Ahmad, Khurshid and Margaret Rogers, eds. Evidence-based LSP: translation, text and terminology (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 47). Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 511–523.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

comparative research=contrastive research | metaphor=imagery

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of 'grammatical metaphor' (the personification of inanimate nouns) in translation. The article looks at four different language versions of the Treaty on European Union: English, French, German and Swedish.

Source : A. Matthyssen