Translation as Metaphor

<p>In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical territories and the many cross-disciplinary movements they imply. In five chapters, this book examines:</p> <p></p> <p>· The main metaphor theories developed in the West.</p> <p></p> <p>· The way the notion of metaphor relates to the concept of translation.</p> <p></p> <p>· Different theoretical perspectives on metaphors of translation in translation studies.</p> <p></p> <p>· The main metaphors developed to describe translation in the West and in the East. </p> <p></p> <p>· Spatial metaphors within translation studies, cultural studies and postcolonial theory.</p> <p></p> <p>· The use of the metaphor of translation across psychoanalysis, anthropology and ethnography, postcolonial theory, history and literature, sociology, media and communication theory, and medicine and genetics.</p> <p></p> <p>Comprehensive analysis of key metaphor theories, revealing examples from a wide range of sources and a look towards future directions make this is a must-have book for students, researchers and translators working in the areas of translation and translation theory.</p>