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Publication details [#57895]

Rogers, Margaret and Khadidja Merakchi. 2013. The translation of culturally bound metaphors in the genre of popular science articles: A corpus-based case study from Scientific American translated into Arabic. Intercultural Pragmatics 10 (2) : 341–372.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | metaphor | popular culture | scientific report | translation

Language as a subject

Arabic | English, American

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This article reviews research on a specific cultural problem in modern English-Arabic translation, viz. Pedagogical metaphors in popular science articles. A set of translation strategies is deployed to meet the cultural presumptions and experience of the Arab readership, pointing out that popular science varies culturally.