Censoring metaphors in translation: Shakespeare's Hamlet under Franco
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Karen Sullivan
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Elena Bandín
Abstract
In the three versions of Hamlet translated during the Franco regime in Spain, metaphors related to the censored themes of sex and religion were altered or removed. In this study, we employ the Metaphor Identification Procedure (Pragglejaz Group 2007) to identify all metaphors involving sex and religion in Shakespeare's Hamlet and its three Franco-era Spanish translations. We find that under the influence of censorship, authors employ many of the strategies for metaphor translation also used for uncensored texts, such as those identified by Newmark (1981), van den Broeck (1981), and Toury (1995). However, we argue that censorship encourages strategies judged as less preferable, more extreme, or which are not usually discussed in translation studies. These strategies appear to be selected specifically to remove the material subject to censorship, whether this is found in the source domain (vehicle) or the target domain (tenor) of a metaphor.
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Censoring metaphors in translation: Shakespeare's Hamlet under Franco
- Cognitive grounding for cross-cultural commercial communication
- Deconstructing a verbal illusion: The ‘No X is too Y to Z’ construction and the rhetoric of negation
- The semantics of the transitive causative construction: Evidence from a forced-choice pointing study with adults and children
- Commentary
- Where does metonymy begin? Some comments on Janda (2011)
- Reply
- Metonymy and word-formation revisited
