Translating conceptual metaphors in the great Gatsby

Abstract EN

The recognition that cognitive linguistics has a significant impact on the field of translation studies is the main foundation for the current thesis.

the present thesis investigates the evolution of translation studies from structure-based to function-based disciplines.

the main of this thesis is to explore the ways translators have attempted to render imagery, cognitive metaphor in particular, in literary texts.

Fitzgerald's the great Gatsby is the subject of the researcher's main point of study since it contains many figures of speech, and conceptual metaphors, in particular.

its major objective is to study how conceptual metaphors are used in F.

Scott Fitzgerald's the great Gatsby and how they are translated between English and Arabic.

this thesis finds answers to the research questions set out in the first chapter by examining the points of similarities and differences across both languages and cultures in relation to the translation of metaphors.

Chapter 1 explains the priority of the human mind in any translation activity.

the metaphor identification procedure (MIP) has been implemented in Chapter 2 to determine linguistic metaphors and semantic field theory used to classify metaphorical expressions in the corpus into conceptual domains (target and source domains).

chapter 3 introduces a detailed commentary on the interpretation of conceptual metaphors detected in the translated text of Scott FitzGerald’s the great Gatsby by Mohammed Mustajeer Mustafa.

similarly, chapter four examined translation strategies chosen in the translated version of the selected novel by Osama Monzalji.

in linguistic terms, chapters 3 and 4 give prominence to the evaluation of the employed options and procedures adopted by both Mustajeer and Monzalji.

nevertheless, it has been the role of the researcher to highlight the cases of translation procedures in accordance with Nili Mandleblit’s hypothesis (1995) of metaphor translation.