Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ANKARA BİLİM ÜNİVERSİTESİ I. ULUSLARARASI ANKARA İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ KONGRESİ, Ankara, Türkiye, 14 - 15 Mayıs 2022, ss.44-45
A cognitive approach to metaphors was initiated by Lakoff and Johnson’s seminal work Metaphors We
Live By (1980). Since then, metaphors have been the subject of many academic fields in literature and
Translation Studies. While the traditional perspective sees metaphor as a rhetoric device used for only
artistic purposes, contemporary approaches see it as a way of conceptualizing abstract ideas in terms of
concrete concepts. According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), metaphor is conceptual in nature,
and it is easily noticeable not only in language but also in action and thought. The TARGET IS SOURCE
formula, which is the basis of the CMT, puts forward the unidirectional way from the source domain to
the target domain. In other words, a mapping system emerges out of the relation between the two
domains where some aspects of the concrete concepts in the source domain contribute to reveal the
implied meanings of metaphors through the abstract concepts in the target domain. However, Goatly
(1997) follows a more comprehensive path by carrying these conceptual views to a different dimension
and advocates the same level of abstraction between the source and target domain by introducing the
new term “root analogy” for conceptual metaphors. Therefore, this study aims to find out the root
analogies underlined by a range of metaphorical expressions detected in D. H. Lawrence’s novella The
Fox and analyze the similarities within the scope of Gideon Toury’s translation normsin its two different
Turkish translated versions. For this purpose, four main metaphor procedures combining Newmark’s
(2001) strategies for metaphor translation with Kövecses’s (2005) cross-cultural parameters were
applied to analyze metaphors in terms of root analogies. Content analysis in line with a product-oriented
approach was conducted in this study. Considering the translators’ preferences in the target texts
translated 78 years apart, the research results concluded that the similarities of root analogies between
the source text and its target texts brought cross-cultural similarities to the fore despite the slight
differences. In addition, this study emphasized the significance of concrete target domain as well as
abstract target domain of root analogies.