The Role of Context in Translating Colour Metaphors: An Experiment on English into Estonian Translation

Contemporary theory on metaphor states that metaphor is conceptual, conventional, and part of the ordinary system of thought and language. It has been argued that metaphors can become a translation problem, since transferring them from one language and culture to another may be restricted by linguis...

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Published in:	Open Linguistics
Main Authors:	Kalda Anu, Uusküla Mari
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	De Gruyter 2019-12-01
Subjects:	translation cognitive linguistics, semantics culture-specific concepts colour terms
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0038

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