对外政治话语中隐喻的功能及其英译

On Rhetorical Functions of Metaphor and its C-E Translation in Political Discourse

目前对隐喻翻译的讨论普遍聚焦喻体等值转换或意象投射等问题,模糊了隐喻认知与修辞隐喻的差异。在综述隐喻的话语功能基础上,对党和国家领导人的发言和政府工作报告中所使用的隐喻及其对应译文进行较为深入的分析,认为政治话语中的隐喻具有阐释与劝说功能。为了发挥政治话语中隐喻的对外阐释与说服功能,翻译应技巧性地选择相应的翻译策略,根据隐喻的功能采用直译、直译加注、转换喻体、换以明喻以及释译喻义等方法进行隐喻翻译,以便更好地提高对外话语的传播效果。

Current studies on metaphor translation mainly focus on exploring how conceptual mapping facilitate the transfer of information and images from SL to TL without paying enough attention to metaphor’s rhetorical function in target texts.After summarizing metaphor’s discourse functions in previous rhetorical studies,this paper makes an in-depth analyses on metaphors in CPC leaders and government officials’speeches as and their translated versions.The paper claims that metaphors’role in facilitating the explication of political concepts and their persuasion power should be taken into account when choosing translation strategies.And in translation practice,such translation methods can be adopted as literal translation,translation plus sense,replacing the image,translation by simile,and interpreting the metaphorical meaning,so as to enhance the country’s global communication effect.