“Más allá de la tumba”: equivalencias de unidades fraseológicas con metáforas muertas en un diccionario especializado de economía y comercio inglés-español

Juan Manuel Pérez Sánchez; José Luis Rojas Díaz

doi:10.17533/udea.mut.v14n2a12

Authors

Juan Manuel Pérez Sánchez University of Antioquia
José Luis Rojas Díaz NHH Norwegian School of Economics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v14n2a12

Keywords:

phraseology, lexicography, terminology, lsp, translation, dead metaphors

Abstract

This article examines a question of the interest of scholars dealing with phraseology, terminology and translation, namely the task of translating and finding equivalents of idiomatic expressions, such as specialized phraseological units (henceforth SPUs), especially those in which a dead metaphor underlies. Among the unsolved questions that phraseology still struggles with to establish itself as a discipline on its own right there are two hindering factors that are related to terminology and translation: on the one hand, specialized phraseology is an under-explored and a not institutionalized line of research, to the point of being deemed a non-coherent research field (Kjær, 2007, p. 507). On the other hand, phraseology is considered to be a missing training subject in translation academic syllabi (Corpas Pastor, 2003, p. 222). Therefore, this study intends to offer descriptive data that could be used as a starting point for finding answers regarding the identification and even the creation of equivalents for SPUs that include dead metaphors among their lexical components. The aim of this article is two-fold, (i) it will offer a series of linguistic analyses (morphosyntactic and semantic) of the word forms in the SPUs being analyzed, and their equivalents and (ii) it will shed light on the translation techniques (Molina & Hurtado Albir, 2002, pp. 509-511) used to coin the equivalents of these SPUs.

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Author Biographies

Juan Manuel Pérez Sánchez, University of Antioquia

Holds a BA degree in Translation (English - French - Spanish) from Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), and an MA degree in Translation Studies from Kent State University (United States). Additionally, he has a Ph.D. degree in Applied Linguistics and Linguistic Science from Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). He currently coordinates the BA in Translation program at Universidad de Antioquia, where he has worked as a professor of Translation since 2004. His areas of interest include lexicography, lexical semantics, phraseology, metaphor studies, translation studies, and translation teaching.

José Luis Rojas Díaz, NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Holds a BA degree in Translation (English - French - Spanish) and an MA degree in Linguistics from the University of Antioquia (Colombia). He is currently a Ph.D. Scholar at NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Norway) where he is currently working on his Ph.D. thesis on phraseology, terminology, and languages for specific purposes. He has worked as a lecturer in the BA and MA translation programs at the University of Antioquia (Colombia). His areas of interest include phraseology, lexicography, terminology, computer-assisted translation, localization, and corpus linguistics.

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