Conceptual Metaphors in the Translation of Political Speeches of King Abdullah II
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1210.24Keywords:
conceptual metaphor, translation, speech, King, AbdullahAbstract
The research aims to define conceptual metaphor and its types in general, as well as exploring the conceptualization of the metaphorical expressions used in the political speeches of King Abdullah II in English and the translations of the metaphors in Arabic. The study illustrates the techniques and strategies used by the Hashemite Royal Court in translating ST metaphorical expression to the TT. The researcher relies on the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), proposed by the Group (2007) and the Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), proposed by Charteris-Black (2004), in identifying the conceptual metaphors that King Abdullah II used in his political speeches. As for categorizing the metaphorical expressions, we rely on the Longman and Oxford Dictionaries to determine the semantic field that the metaphorical expression relates to. The study depends on the method proposed by Al-Zoubi, Al-Ali, and Al-Hasnawi (2007) to examine the conceptual metaphors of the two texts and find out whether there are any differences or similarities by comparing the two metaphors, as well as analyzing whether the metaphors are maintained, changed or deleted.
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