Fuertes Olivera, Pedro Antonio, Velasco Sacristán, María Sol
The translatability of metaphor in LSP: application of a decision-making model
FUERTES OLIVERA, Pedro Antonio; VELASCO SACRISTÁN, Marisol. “The translatability of metaphor in LSP: application of a decision-making model”. Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses. No. 14 (Nov. 2001). ISSN 0214-4808, pp. 73-91
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/5285
DOI: 10.14198/raei.2001.14.05
ISSN: 0214-4808
Abstract: 
The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life. Under this view this article analyses the decision-making stage translators go through in the course of formulating a TT. Hence this article contributes both to enhance the status of translation theory and to explain some of the decisions taken by the Spanish translators of three English Manuals of Economics. In short, we have argued that the use of a 'maximax' strategy for translating English metaphors as Spanish similarity-creating metaphors can be attributed to subjective factors, especially to the translators' cognitive system, their knowledge bases, the task
specification, and the text type specific problem space. As a result, we have also
claimed that proposals for translating microtextual problems —for example, metaphors — can benefit from the study of the above-mentioned subjective factors since they allow or inhibit the translators' choices in the decision-making
stage of the translation process.
Keywords:Traducción, Metáfora, Lenguajes especializados, Métodos de traducción, Modelos teóricos
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa
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