Open AccessTranslation of Metaphors in George Orwell’s Animal Farm from English to Hindi: A Cognitive Semantic Perspective
Author(s) -
Baburam Upadhaya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
translation today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0972-8740
DOI - 10.46623/tt/2021.15.1.no3
Subject(s) - hindi , george (robot) , perspective (graphical) , linguistics , metaphor , cognition , computer science , target culture , source text , cognitive science , artificial intelligence , psychology , philosophy , neuroscience
Metaphors are prevalentacross languages and cultures, but not all metaphors are shared by any two languages. Therefore, it is interesting to see how a work of translation deals with metaphors through a cognitive semantic perspective. This paper investigates how metaphors used by George Orwell in Animal Farm have been translated into Hindi by Sooraj Prakash. The findings show Prakash using culture-specific metaphors in the target text (TT) to provide the metaphorical sense of the target culture and at the same time trying to preserve the metaphors of the source text (ST) wherever they fitted aptly.