Texture-Oriented Translation of Conceptual Metaphors in Wrestling Reports
Volume 56, Issue 3, Autumn 2023, Pages 61-101
https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2023.83433.1204
Ebrahim Ezzati Larsari, Hamid Ghasemi, Behnam Asheghi
Abstract The present research investigated the reports of wrestling reporters to present a specific model for translating conceptual metaphors. This study was qualitative and corpus-based. To this end, 20 reports from the World Wrestling Cup series in 2022 were randomly selected and analyzed through linguistic-based content analysis. The analysis showed that metaphors constituted more than 8% of the reports on average. Therefore, the most frequent metaphorical sentences in these reports were identified and finally, a specific context-oriented translation model for conceptual metaphors was developed for wrestling sports reports. Considering the importance of accurate translation to find the most relevant concept in the target language, and also considering that many researchers regard metaphor translation as the most challenging problem of translation, the specific context-oriented translation model for conceptual metaphors was designed and introduced for sports reports, especially wrestling.