Open AccessCROSS LINGUSTIC EQUIVALENCE THE PARTICULAR CASE OF THE METAPHOR OF LIGHT
Author(s) -
Mihaela Marieta DAMIAN
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the international conference "synergies in communication"
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
eISSN - 2668-9375
pISSN - 2284-6654
DOI - 10.24818/sic/2021/01.05
Subject(s) - conceptualization , metaphor , equivalence (formal languages) , linguistics , cognitive linguistics , computer science , conceptual metaphor , romanian , perception , cognition , perspective (graphical) , dynamic and formal equivalence , semantic equivalence , natural language processing , psychology , artificial intelligence , machine translation , philosophy , semantic web , semantic computing , neuroscience
Language of perception is common to all humans within a similar cultural background. Its conceptualization, from a semantic standpoint, is however language specific. With this view in mind, this study aims at investigating, from a cognitive linguistic perspective and from a Descriptive Translation standpoint, the transfer in meaning of conceptual properties assigned to the visual metaphor of ‘light’, in a small scale, English (source language) - Romanian (target language) investigation, seeking to provide a better understanding regarding the nuances implied in the crosslinguistic equivalence of such metaphors, its secondary aim being that of validating these preliminary results through a cross linguistic investigation of similar matters on larger corpora.