Title Metaforų vertimas Hermano Melvilio romane "Mobi Dikas" /
Translation of Title Translation of Metaphors in Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick".
Authors Rižakovaitė, Laima
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Keywords [eng] vertimas ; translation ; metaforos ; metaphors
Abstract [eng] The subject of the present research is the phenomenon of metaphors in the novel “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville (translated by Irena Balčiūnienė) in the aspect of translation. The aim is to analyze the ways of translating metaphors and to determine what structural changes they undergo in the process of translation. For this purpose 711 examples of metaphors have been selected and classified according to their translation into the Lithuanian language from the point of view of co-text (i.e. the linguistic environment of the metaphor.
Type Master thesis
Language English
Publication date 2006