隐喻的认知与隐喻翻译

Cognition and Translation of Metaphor

隐喻的研究由来已久,隐喻是一种常见的修辞手段。现代隐喻论认为隐喻不仅是一种语言现象,更重要的是一种思维与行为方式,一种认知手段。隐喻是语言的一个重要组成部分,它承载着特定民族的深厚而独特的文化内涵。在翻译隐喻时,译者要根据隐喻的认知方式,采取不同的翻译手段,以取得文化传真的最佳效果。

The history of metaphor studies is very long.Metaphor is a common rhetoric means,but modem metaphor theories consider that metaphor is not only rhetoric means but also a cognitive means as well as an important thinking and conduct means.Metaphor is an important part of language;it carries the unique cultural connotations of a particular nation.In the process of metaphor translation,basing on the cognition mode of metaphor,we should adopt different methods of translation to achieve the best results of cultural facsimile.